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• Prosecutors dropping charges in La. landfill probe

  March 8, 2013 2:44 PM

  NEW ORLEANS - The Justice Department is dropping fraud charges against a Louisiana landfill executive and his brother-in-law in a case marred by allegations of prosecutorial misconduct. A court filing Friday by prosecutors says its request to dismiss the indictment of River Birch landfill executive Dominick Fazzio and Mark Titus... more »

• Tangipahoa may sell bonds to close landfill

  February 13, 2013 7:15 AM

  AMITE - The Tangipahoa Parish Council has introduced and set for public hearing an ordinance that would authorize the issuance of $2.4 million in bonds to pay for improvements to the parish landfill near Independence. If the measure meets with final approval at the council's next meeting, set for Feb.... more »

• Federal prosecutor withdraws from landfill case

  December 12, 2012 10:16 AM

  NEW ORLEANS - A federal prosecutor has withdrawn from the case against a landfill executive charged with plotting to defraud a construction management company. A lawyer for River Birch executive Dominick Fazzio had asked a judge to recuse Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Kennedy from the case, claiming Kennedy failed to... more »

• Garbage tax on ballot in Tangipahoa Parish

  November 28, 2012 9:11 AM

  AMITE - Voters in rural Tangipahoa Parish will be asked to approve a property tax proposition in support of parish landfill operations on the Dec. 8 ballot. Rural Garbage District No. 1, which includes all unincorporated areas of the parish, is seeking renewal of a 10-year, 10-mill ad valorem... more »

• Landfill owner: 2nd prosecutor made online posts

  November 2, 2012 12:43 PM

  NEW ORLEANS - A south Louisiana landfill owner charges in a lawsuit that a second federal prosecutor defamed him in anonymous online posts. Fred Heebe of New Orleans makes the allegation against Assistant U.S. Attorney Jan Maselli Mann in a lawsuit filed Friday in state court. Sal Perricone (PEHR' ih... more »

• Landfill owner's defamation suit gets new judge

  October 31, 2012 12:41 PM

  NEW ORLEANS - A federal judge has disqualified herself from presiding over a landfill owner's defamation lawsuit against a former federal prosecutor who resigned after acknowledging he anonymously posted comments on a newspaper's website about judges, politicians and cases. U.S. District Judge Helen Berrigan recused herself from the case Tuesday... more »

• Arraignment set in alleged embezzlement plot

  October 15, 2012 3:01 PM

  NEW ORLEANS - A landfill executive and his brother-in-law are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on new charges stemming from an alleged plot to embezzle nearly $1 million from a New Orleans-based construction management company. Dominick Fazzio, chief financial officer of the River Birch landfill, and Mark Titus were indicted... more »

• Remains of some 9-11 victims went to landfill

  February 28, 2012 12:45 PM

  WASHINGTON - A new Pentagon report reveals that partial remains of some 9-11 victims were sent to a landfill after they could not be identified. The victims were among those killed when a terrorist-hijacked airplane struck the Pentagon, killing 184, and another crashed in Shanksville, Pa., killing 40. The report... more »

• Jeff landfill closed for Mardi Gras

  February 20, 2012 8:59 AM

  GRETNA - Jefferson Parish officials say the parish landfill will be closed on Tuesday for Mardi Gras and there will be no trash collection in Jean Lafitte or unincorporated areas of the parish. Garbage routes usually run on Tuesday will be done on Friday, officials said. Spokeswoman Marnie Winter also... more »

• Ex-La. official's sentencing moved to October

  January 4, 2012 4:30 PM

  NEW ORLEANS - A federal judge has agreed to postpone the sentencing of a former Louisiana wildlife official who pleaded guilty to taking payoffs from a landfill company owner's businesses for his work in trying to keep rival landfills closed. Former Wildlife and Fisheries Commissioner Henry Mouton was scheduled to... more »

• Settlement reached over Livingston landfill

  October 6, 2011 6:10 PM

  LIVINGSTON - A 20 year battle over a Livingston landfill is finally over. Lawyers for property owners near the CECOS International site say a settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit filed in 1991. That is the same year the hazardous waste dump was closed by... more »

• Federal agents raid offices of landfill

  September 24, 2010 8:59 AM

  Federal agents have raided the offices of a landfill that landed a questioned $160 million contract for garbage disposal in Jefferson Parish last year. In June 2009, River Birch Landfill landed a 25-year contract worth at least $6.4 million a year to dispose of parish garbage at its Waggaman site,... more »

• Oiled trash dumped in Ascension Parish

  June 17, 2010 6:14 PM

  So far, 1,900 tons of oiled trash are being dumped in Sorrento. Things such as used boom and protective suits for workers cleaning the soiled marshes are finding their final resting places at the BFI-Colonial Landfill. People who live nearby, like Harris Martinez, don't like it. "Anything hazardous, and they... more »

• Judge upholds landfill's air permit

  February 16, 2010 7:11 AM

  A Baton Rouge judge has upheld the state Department of Environmental Quality's decision in late 2008 to issue a modified air discharge permit to Waste Management's Woodside Landfill near Walker. The head of the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, which represents concerned residents and an environmental group in the case, said... more »

• Landfill body appears to be missing girl

  October 22, 2009 8:51 AM

  Authorities believe a body found in a Georgia landfill is that of missing 7-year-old Somer Thompson. Officials are basing the tentative identification on clothing and a birthmark that matches the girl's. An autopsy is planned for today. Thompson disappeared Monday after running ahead of a group of children... more »