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An Aug. 22 explosion at Smitty’s Supply in Tangipahoa Parish forced the evacuation of hundreds of nearby residents.
Feds, La. sue plant over explosion
years of alleged environmental violations also cited BY ALEX LUBBEN Staff writer
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Suzanne Brown places pasta and milk into boxes at Second Harvest Food Bank in Harahan on Oct. 22. BY EMILY WOODRUFF
Staff writer
In the darkness of a movie theater Tuesday night, Brittany Montgomery opened her SNAP app to check for a payment. It was her son’s birthday and she had taken him out to celebrate. When she saw that $355 had been loaded to her account, she felt a wave of relief. Montgomery, 38, lost her job as a hospital housekeeper three months ago and has seven children ages 8 to 19. By the time the movie ended, the Dollar General near her
home in Avondale had closed, so she decided to buy groceries the next morning. When she checked her app again Wednesday, the balance had vanished. “Payment expunged,” the screen read. Only 21 cents remained from her previous deposit. At 8 a.m., she called the information line. They couldn’t tell her much. She cried the whole day. “I tried the food bank up the street from my house — they don’t have any food,” Montgomery said. “Now I don’t have a job, no money. You know, what can I do?”
Across Louisiana, hundreds of thousands of households are confused and scrambling after the federal shutdown cut off SNAP benefits. Nearly 800,000 people in the state rely on the program, commonly known as food stamps, which provides over $150 million in food assistance in the state each month. Gov. Jeff Landry promised that families with children, seniors and residents with disabilities would continue to receive aid. The Louisiana Department of Health launched
ä See SNAP, page 14A
Federal and state regulators are suing Smitty’s Supply Inc., the Tangipahoa Parish oil and lubricant plant, over an Aug. 22 explosion that sent a plume of black smoke towering over Roseland and forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents, as well as numerous previous alleged environmental violations. The 65-page lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court in New Orleans, calls the explosion “catastrophic” and accuses Smitty’s of “repeatedly failing” to follow pollution-control laws and maintaining “insufficient” spill-prevention plans long before the August explosion. Cleanup from the explosion is ongoing, the lawsuit states, and months later there is still a risk of additional pollution from the site of the explosion. “Plaintiffs ask this Court to hold Defendant accountable for unlawfully polluting the Nation’s and the State’s waters, and to require Defendant to take all appropriate measures to prevent future spills or discharges,” the lawsuit, filed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, states.
ä See EXPLOSION, page 10A
Hondo Rodeo Fest riding into N.O.
Orleans coroner facing legal losses
The dates, April 10-12, were unveiled during the Greater New Orleans Staff writer Sports Foundation’s Hall of New Orleans is aiming to Fame awards ceremony at lasso a new kind of mega- the Superdome. State and event to plug one of the big- city tourism leaders — still gest holes in its 2026 tourism stung by the unexpected calendar. On Thursday, offi- loss of WrestleMania, which cials announced that Hondo had been slated for the same Rodeo Fest — the fast-grow- spring window — said the ing rodeo and country muä See RODEO, page 13A sic weekend that debuted in
last month, the bill rose even higher. On Oct. 22, a threejudge panel of the Louisiana BY BEN MYERS 4th Circuit Staff writer Court of Orleans Parish Coroner Appeal upDwight McKenna’s failure held a lower McKenna to identify bodies, notify court findnext of kin or adopt written ing that McKenna’s office protocols for the handling of was liable for “outrageous the city’s dead has already and reckless” misconduct cost his office tens of thou- in the misidentification of sands of dollars in outstanding legal judgments. Late ä See CORONER, page 14A
in 2024 — will come Three-day event Phoenix to the Caesars Superdome bringing three days to replace loss of inof April, arena rodeo and nighttime WrestleMania stadium concerts.
Misidentification cases costly for McKenna’s office
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Hondo Rodeo Fest, which couples traditional rodeo events with top country music stars, is set for New Orleans on April 10-12.
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