Most consumer purchases for tangible personal property will be exempt from state sales tax during a two-day sales tax holiday Aug. 1 and 2, according to a release from the Louisiana Department of Revenue.

The holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Aug. 1, and concludes at midnight Saturday, Aug. 2.

During its meeting in the council chambers Thursday, the Ascension Parish Council adopted an ordinance to set millage rates on property taxes collected to the same levels as they were last year.

The body of an Ascension Parish man was found at the abandoned Swaggart dormitories on the corner of Bluebonnet Boulevard and Anselmo Street Sunday evening around 8:30 p.m., according to an East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office release.

Capital Area United Way (CAUW) kicked off its 2008 Campaign with the organization’s 21st Annual Campaign Kickoff and Jambalaya Cookoff at the Baton Rouge River Center Exhibition Hall Thursday.

A team of Ascension Parish jambalaya cookers from Motiva Enterprises captured the CAUW jambalaya contest, billed as one of the largest in Louisiana.

he 32 teams of anglers who competed in last week’s Wednesday Evening Bass Tourment out of Canal Bank Club didn’t get much help from Mother Nature, as a summertime cold front pushed through and pushed water out of the Amite River-Blind River basin the weekend prior.

Tuesday held at lot of firsts for St. Amant native Ben Sheets.