Envy Apartment

A teenager was unable to save her 5-year-old sister from their burning apartment Tuesday night when roaring flames turned the apartment into an inferno, making it impossible to get to the second-floor where the child was watching television, officials said. East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Dr . "Beau" Clark identified the girl as Treasure Garner, although her family says her last name is Hadley. She died in the fire at the Cedarwood Apartments on Cedarcrest Avenue . The fire started around 7 p.m. and burned for more than three hours, spreading to more than 10 apartments before firefighters could bring it under control. Treasure's 18-year-old sister had earlier helped the child get ready for bed, then turned on a television on the second floor of the apartment for the little girl to watch while the teen went to the first-floor kitchen to prepare dinner, said Brant Thompson, chief deputy of the State Fire Marshal 's Office, according to accounts gathered by the F...

Brad Devereaux | MLive.com Residents stand outside the main entrance of Lakeside Village apartment complex Tuesday night . SAGINAW TOWNSHIP , MI —  Audrey Fobear, 80, was watching television when the fire alarms started blaring . She headed for the exit with the rest of her neighbors at Lakeside Village , a three- story apartment complex at 4370 Lakeside Circle . Fobear lives three doors down from where the fire started. "I just saw the door open and flames," she said. "Two people were trying to put them out." Many of her neighbors are disabled, she said, but believed everyone got out without serious injury.    She and several friends made it outside about 9:22 p.m. shortly after firefighters arrived and extended a truck boom to fight the fire with water.  The fire began in a room on the third floor of the northwest corner, said Saginaw Township Fire Chief Jim Peterson .  Brad Devereaux | MLive.com Medical responders speak with someone as firefighters put away th...

Students moving into the Vie apartment complex on Tuesday were met with a variety of sanitation and damage issues, including long wait times , dirty rooms and few answers to their problems. Approximately 30 students have filed complaints to management, according to Kamie Henderson, general manager for Vie. Morgan Langdon, a second- year studying political science , claims that her apartment was full of dirt, debris and mildew when she arrived on Tuesday.  “The washer and dryer were filled with mildew,” Langdon said. “The filters hadn’t been changed at all. There was animal pee on the ground, to where you walked in and you had to plug your nose, it smelled so bad. It was very evident that no one had been in there to clean obviously, or even inspect to make sure everything was working.”  Langdon says that her roommate first filed a complaint at 10 a.m. Tuesday, and as of Wednesday afternoon, the apartment suite hasn ’t been cleaned by maintenance. “Luckily, my parents live close enough...

Why go now? Say you’re off to Fort Lauderdale , and you’ll likely get more than one response along the lines of, “Oh, great! Um… Where is that again?” It isn’t too surprising; this beachside city smack bang in the centre of Florida’s Gold Coast is somewhat overshadowed by its loud, brash next-door neighbour, Miami. If it’s previously gone under the radar though, Fort Lauderdale is about to get a significant boost; British Airways has a new direct route from London Gatwick to Fort Lauderdale that launched in July. FL’s laid-back charm, year-round sun and competitive prices just got more accessible. Get your bearings Forty minutes’ drive north of Miami, Fort Lauderdale is the more demure, less expensive big sister to the blow-out party town. The city sprawls up the coast, with gold sandy beaches and the warm waters of the Atlantic separated from inland FL by a network of intracoastal canals – not for nothing is this city known as the Venice of America. The main strip is Las Olas Bo...

NEW YORK, NY — It's one of the oldest rivalries in American migration: New York vs. Los Angeles. For the better part of a century, residents of the nation's two largest metro areas have been defending their chosen kingdom and dismissing the other on an endless loop of judginess between kitty-corner coasts. Ew, the traffic! But the sunshine! But the subway! But the garbage! But the skyline! But the coastline! But the bustle! But the chill! In this tireless war of words, a clear winner has yet to emerge. But it's harder to argue against the numbers. Thousands of working professionals have relocated to Los Angeles County from New York City in the past year and a half, according to a series of monthly "workforce reports" released this spring and summer by the job- networking site LinkedIn (and spotted by LA Weekly). And it's not exactly a two-way street. Since early 2016, according to LinkedIn, around seven or eight out of every 10, 000 site users in LA report...