Sulphur, Louisiana

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Sulphur

Sunny
Temperature: 77.0 °F

Humidity: 31 %
Wind Speed: 6 mph WNW
Pressure: 29.97 "

Dew Point: 45 °F
Gusts: 18 mph W
Rain Today: 0.00 "

• Louisiana Division II High School State Championships
  

  By Sarah Eckersley SULPHUR, Louisiana, December 1. WITH a combined score of 813 points, Vandebilt Catholic walked away with the state title at the Louisiana Division II State Championships.

• Louisiana Division III High School State Championships
  

  By Sarah Eckersley SULPHUR, Louisiana, December 1. AT the Louisiana Division III High School State Championships, the St.

• Louisiana Division IV High School State Championships
  

  By Sarah Eckersley SULPHUR, Louisiana, December 1. UNIVERSTY, Episcopal and Isidore Newman took first, second and third on the girls' and boys' side at the Louisiana Division IV High School State Championships.

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• Lauren Comeaux and Kelly Vincent
  

  Lauren Nicole Comeaux and Kelly Jude Vincent, both of Sulphur, will be united in marriage on November 15, 2008, at St.

• Flu season no reason to take shot in the dark
  

  I picked up a prescription the other day and my favorite pharmacists at Randall's - of which there are two - told me they still had plenty of flu vaccine, and it's not too late to get your shot.

• Mandeville woman trades law partnership for writing career
  

  When Mandeville resident Pamela Binnings Ewen retired from a career as a corporate lawyer to write full time, it must have seemed like a natural progression.

• Police chase serial bank robber
  

  Less than a week after a man dubbed the Rush Hour Robber hit his second bank in Deerfield Township, investigators think they have linked him to a heist in Louisiana last month.

• Read
  

  Plans were made during a conference call Aug. 29 for Disaster Relief response in Louisiana, two days before Hurricane Gustav made landfall, and while Hurricane Hanna was still charting an uncertain course.

• Recusal hearing ordered for Lake Charles judge
  

  The Louisiana Supreme Court says another judge must decide whether a Calcasieu Parish judge accused of bias must step aside from a murder trial.

• Citgo fined millions for '06 oil spill
  

  A U.S. District Court fined Citgo $13 million Wednesday for spilling 53,000 barrels of oil in two Louisiana rivers.

• CALCASIEU: FEMA, residents assess damage
  

  Residents in rural Calcasieu Parish were banding together to take care of themselves and neighbors who continued to battle Hurricane Ike's floodwaters Sunday.

• Plaquemines flooding cuts parish in two
  

  Plaquemines was a parish divided - split in half by floodwaters from Ike's storm surge that covered sections of the one evacuation route - Highway 23 at Myrtle Grove.

• Citgo fined $13M for Louisana pollution
  

  Citgo was fined $13 million Wednesday after admitting it polluted two Louisiana rivers, federal prosecutors said.

• Alligator visits Sulphur resident
  

  From the office of the Sulphur Police: Monday morning, September 15, 2008 at approximately 12:30 AM, Robert Saucier of 1002 Invader Street, Sulphur called 911 reporting a 12 foot alligator on his carport.

• Gov. Jindal says focus on search and rescue today
  

  In his first news conference of the day since Hurricane Ike made landfall overnight, Gov.

• Some stay in Cameron parish
  

  Water from Hurricane Ike was rushing over La. 27 north of Hackberry in Cameron Parish by 5 p.m. Friday, stranding 150 people who refused to heed evacuation orders.

• Sulphur OKs speed trap van contract
  

  The Sulphur City Council has voted narrowly to hire a speed trap van rather than installing traffic cameras in school zones.

• Trash Pickup Schedule for the Lake Area
  

  For those of you wondering when your trash will get picked up. In Lake Charles garbage and trash pickup will resume tomorrow.

City Description

Sulphur (French: Soufre) is a city in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 22,512 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area. In late September 2005, Hurricane Rita made landfall on the Texas-Louisiana border, damaging thousands of homes and businesses in Calcasieu and the surrounding parishes, as well as most of Southern Louisiana and Texas mostly Louisiana. Calcasieu Parish, along with Cameron Parish was extensively damaged by the hurricane. Sulphur is located at 30°13′49″N 93°21′39″W / 30.23028, -93.36083 (30.230355, -93.360837) and has an elevation of 16 feet (4.9 m). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.0 square miles (26.0 km²), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 22,512 people, 7,901 households, and 5,601 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,043.0 people per square mile (788.8/km²). There were 8,665 housing units at an average density of 863.0/sq mi (333.2/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 93.43% White, 4.41% African American, 0.33% Native American, 0.37% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.35% from other races, and 1.06% from

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• Calcasieu Parish

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