BATON ROUGE – Governor Bobby Jindal announced that Mary Gauthier-Lewis, of Prairieville has been reapointed to the Medicaid Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee that serves to develop and maintain a legal pharmacopoeia, a list of preferred drugs, for Louisiana.

Louisiana is going into the car manufacturing business. The Bayou State is going where no car manufacturer has gone before.

Ascension Parish high school rodeo stars Randi Robert, barrel racer; Tyler Waguespack, steer wrestler; and bull rider Jacob O’Mara are competing in the Louisiana High School Rodeo Association state championship finals at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales.

Gov. Bobby Jindal and Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret joined executives from V-Vehicle Company Wednesday to announce the company will begin assembling cars in Monroe.

HOUSTON – The American Red Cross inaugural Tour du Rouge raised about $500,000 for six Red Cross Chapters from Houston to New Orleans thanks to the funds raised by cyclists and a contribution from presenting sponsor ModSpace.

BATON ROUGE – Governor Bobby Jindal announced that 53 parishes will share more than $565.5 million in federal Community Development Block Grant funds to aid their recoveries from hurricanes Gustav and Ike, which caused widespread housing and infrastructure damage last year.

ANGOLA – Ascension Parish Sheriff Jeffrey Wiley is among the 2009 inductees to the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame.

Rodeo ridin’ and ropin’ are underway full speed in Gonzales this week at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center for the Louisiana High School Rodeo Association and National High School Rodeo Association state championship finals.

Louisiana State Police arrested two suspects in connection with the theft of about $200,000 worth of tires.

Two students made a discovery on the campus of an elementary school in Anacoco, La., while the auditorium was being demolished. Found nestled inside the building’s cornerstone was a metal box. The box contained a Holy Bible; two copies of the Vernon Parish Democrat newspaper dated Oct. 30, 1924, and Dec. 11, 1924; and a Masonic coin.

Ports all around Louisiana are in dire straits. Funding in many ports is exhausted. “The till is about empty in the ports right now,” said Lynn Hohensee, director of the West Calcasieu Port, at Wednesday’s meeting of the Sulphur Kiwanis Club.

DONALDSONVILLE – Area residents voiced their concerns Tuesday over the planned Bayou Lafourche dredging project.

When it comes to the Nwokorie siblings, they aim high. The three siblings simultaneously received the The General Billy Mitchell Award, one of the the Civil Air Patrol’s most prestigious cadet honors.

BATON ROUGE – State Treasurer John Kennedy wants the state to take an active approach in collecting the more than $1 billion it is owed.

The Ascension Parish area lies between two cities recently named as the top places for murders per capita, according to FBI statistics.