Pollution is a serious concern in the modern industrialized world. However, industry is not its only source. According to Trailblazer Rural Development Institute Biologist Olivia Ward, it can be something as simple as a plastic wrapper thrown on the side of the road.
"We all live in a watershed; an area of land that drains to a single body of water such as a stream, lake, wetland or underground aquifer," Ward said. "When it rains, runoff drains into the water potentially carrying harmful pollutants from the land."
A late night fight between a husband and wife landed 34-year-old Brian Keith McCoy in jail on aggravated second degree battery charges, resisting an officer and felony do...
Reported campaign finances of the Webster Parish Sheriff candidates show an enormous disparity in both received contributions and paid expenditures.
