Lake Charles Louisiana Casino
Louisiana Secretary of State/Press Release Index - PAGE A
Baton Rouge--Secretary of State W. Fox McKeithen is scheduled to address the Lake Charles Rotary Club on Wednesday, June 20, at noon. The meeting will be held at the Inn on the Bayou, West Prien Lake Road at Contraband Bayou. Secretary McKeithen will speak about the recent acts of the 2001 Louisiana Legislative Session. ... UCC NEWS -- Are you Ready for Revised Article 9? [Lake Charles on June 25] ... Secretary of State W. Fox McKeithen has announced a photography exhibition titled, "Portraits in Nature-Images of Louisiana Lakes and Bayous", by Lafayette photographer Dianne Boucher. The photographs are currently on exhibit through September 16, 2001. Admission is free. ... [Read More]
Louisiana Secretary of State/Museums/Old State Capitol/This Month in History-June
1971 - Mathilda Gray (Lake Charles heiress and philanthropist) dies. ... 1992 - The Louisiana legislature signed the Louisiana Economic Development and Gamin Corporation into law. This act allowed a single land-based casino near the French Quarter in New Orleans. ... [Read More]
About David
Lake Charles, LA 70601 ... In Congress, Vitter spearheaded several successful Louisiana initiatives, including passing legislation to provide $115 million for Lake Pontchartrain cleanup efforts with local stakeholders around the 16-parish basin, securing significant federal support for anticorruption investigations in the state and funding key job creation initiatives like the Maritime Technology Center at Avondale. ... Prior to his service in Congress, Vitter served seven and one-half years in the Louisiana House of Representatives. During that tenure he repealed the state inheritance tax, passed legislative term limits, passed numerous anticrime measures and filed successful ethics actions to end abuses of the Tulane Legislative Scholarship Program and block illegal riverboat casino deals promoted by then-Governor Edwin Edwards. For his efforts, Vitter was honored as “Legislator of the Year” by the Alliance for Good Government and “Outstanding Legislator” by Victims and Citizens Against Crime, from which he also received a lifetime achievement award. ... [Read More]
2004 - 2008 State & Local Government - Chapter 2 - Part X
Casino Operating Contract : The Louisiana Gaming Control Board is authorized to enter into a casino operating contract with a casino operator to conduct casino gaming operations at the official gaming establishment, to be located on the site of the Rivergate Convention Center in Orleans Parish. The term of the contract and any option to extend or renew may not exceed a total of twenty years primary term and one ten-year renewal option. ... Designated Rivers and Waterways : The designated rivers and waterways upon which riverboat gaming may be conducted are the Mississippi, Red, Calcasieu, Mermentau, and Atchafalaya Rivers, Bayou Segnette within the city limits of Westwego, the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, Bayou Bienvenue, Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Maurepas, Lake Charles, the Intracoastal Canal, except the portion within Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes, and, if approved by a referendum in a parish bordering the waterway, the Sabine River north of the Toledo Bend Reservoir Dam. Act No. 1299 of the 1995 Regular Session provided that on and after June 20, 1995, the addition of a waterway to the list of designated waterways will be effective in a parish bordering that waterway only if approved by a referendum election in the parish, which may be ordered at any time by the parish governing authority. ... [Read More]
USAO WDLA Press Releases
Lake Charles, Louisiana . . . ANTHONYQUINN COLEMAN , age 44, from Lake Charles, Louisiana, pled guilty yesterdayto possession of a firearm by a convicted felon before United States DistrictJudge Donald Walter, announced United States Attorney Donald W. Washingtonand ATF Special Agent in Charge Mark Chait. COLEMAN was indictedby a federal grand jury in March 2005. COLEMAN has 23 prior arrests andsix convictions, some being felonies that were reduced to misdemeanors. It is against federal law for a convicted felon to possess a firearm and/orammunition. ... [Read More]
Overview - Louisiana Drug Threat Assessment
Louisiana's popularity as a tourist, convention, and party destination contributes to drug abuse and distribution. Large numbers of recreation seekers travel to and from New Orleans providing relative anonymity to drug distributors as well as providing a lucrative market for drugs. According to Louisiana's Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, in 2000 visitation to the state was at an all-time high and is continuing to increase. In 2000 more than six million people attended Mardi Gras festivities, pumping a record $1.06 billion into the local economy. Louisiana's burgeoning casino gaming industry contributes to drug abuse, distribution, and money laundering activities in the state. The 1999 Gambling Impact and Behavior Study reported that gambling behavior was significantly associated with multiple drug and alcohol use. The study indicated pathological gamblers were nine times more likely than nongamblers to have been alcohol or drug dependent in their lifetime. The casinos h ... [Read More]
Archived WDLA News Releases
LAKE CHARLES MAN SENTENCED TO LIFEIMPRISONMENT ON FEDERAL CHARGES ... LAKE CHARLES MAN SENTENCED TO 21 MONTHSIMPRISONMENT FOR LYING TO BUY A PISTOL AT GUN SHOW ... LAKE CHARLES MAN SENTENCED FOR ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF FIREARM ... [Read More]
Louisiana Department of Revenue : CyberShame
Brown, Kevin Lee Lake City Grocery (Lake Charles, LA) ... Washington & Sons Refrig & Heat Inc Washington Refrigeration (Lake Charles, LA) ... Lake Charles Transmission Serv Inc ... [Read More]
Louisiana Department of Revenue : CyberShame
Cormier, David Stringers Food Mart & Bait Shop (Lake Charles, LA) ... Cajun Systems of Lake Charles Malone, Patrick (Deville, LA) ... (Lake Charles, LA) ... [Read More]
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