 | BY BOB WARREN | Staff writer |
Old Metairie auction: The hulking Metairie Towers condo complex is back on the market. What happened to the last redevelopment plan? Stephanie Riegel has the details.
Michoud layoffs: Nearly 300 workers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility have been laid off. The job cuts come after Syncom Space Services, which provided operations and facilities maintenance at Michoud and the nearby Stennis Space Center, lost its contract with NASA.
They caught it where!!?? A couple of anglers caught a 1,000-lb. tiger shark off the beach in Pensacola recently. Pensacola? Where half of New Orleans spends part of the summer? Yep. Read all about it. Meanwhile, some additional beach property in Destin is now open to the public.
Hydrate! It's July, so heat is expected. But weather folks warn that the heat indices will make today especially dreadful.
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