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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An upcoming state sales-tax holiday on flashlights, portable generators and other supplies aims to help Louisiana shoppers prepare for the hurricane season. |
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Saturday, May 10 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — After Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, Louisiana officials set up a patchwork of recovery efforts, a fractured system without a clear recovery chief, where one agency devised recovery plans and another agency signed the contracts to pay for them. |
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Friday, May 09 2008 |
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dr. Anna Pou — the cancer surgeon charged with murder after Hurricane Katrina — and her attorney are spearheading three bills in the Louisiana Legislature aimed at protecting medical personnel in future disasters. |
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Friday, May 09 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Figures released today show that the youngest students taking Louisiana's standardized tests did worse in three out of four subjects than they did last year. |
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Friday, May 09 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The state's revenue forecasting panel is expected to substantially boost Louisiana's income projections, putting millions of dollars in additional money on the table for lawmakers to haggle over. |
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Friday, May 09 2008 |
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FORT POLK, La. (AP) — The Army will spend $166 million to upgrade barracks at Fort Polk, members of Louisiana's congressional delegation said. |
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Friday, May 09 2008 |
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MONROE, La. (AP) — University of Louisiana at Monroe President Jim Cofer has applied to be president of the University of Louisiana System. |
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Friday, May 09 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Wardens of Louisiana's 13 state prisons should be forced to disclose their sources of income and other personal financial information, the House decided Thursday. |
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Friday, May 09 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Global rice markets are in turmoil, but for the first time in several years, Louisiana rice farmers are looking forward to something they haven't had in a while — a good chance of turning a profit. |
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Thursday, May 08 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Two New Orleans legislators have narrowly lost the latest effort to make 15- and 16-year-olds who commit the most serious of crimes eligible for parole at age 31. |
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Thursday, May 08 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Three black state lawmakers say they are weighing whether to run for three U.S. House seats this fall as independents, a move that could splinter Democratic support in the races. |
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Wednesday, May 07 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The state's elected utility regulators should get pay hikes, the state House of Representatives voted Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, May 07 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The proposal to build a cargo airport along the lower Mississippi River should be overseen by the governor's office, not the group that has controlled it since the 1990s, the Louisiana Senate voted on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, May 07 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The state's revenue forecasting panel hasn't revised its income projections yet, but Governor Bobby Jindal has an idea of what he wants lawmakers to do with any extra money. |
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Wednesday, May 07 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — President Bush's hurricane recovery chief says the large number of errors in grant awards in the Road Home homeowner program is unacceptable. |
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Wednesday, May 07 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A House committee has approved a bill that would raise the minimum insurance coverage Louisiana motorists must carry on their vehicles. |
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Tuesday, May 06 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Bans on certain types of cell phone usage while driving won Senate approval Tuesday, as lawmakers continue to debate an array of bills that would restrict cell phone use by drivers. |
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Tuesday, May 06 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Senate unanimously approved Governor Bobby Jindal's plan to overhaul the state labor department and make it the chief coordinator of training programs and services for workers. |
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Tuesday, May 06 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Fourth- and eighth-graders in Louisiana public schools showed "marked improvement" this spring in scores on standardized tests that are required for promotion to the next grade, state education officials said Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, May 06 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana should get rid of a law requiring adult motorcycle riders to wear helmets, a House committee voted on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, May 06 2008 |
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state-sponsored insurer of last resort, will be nearly its pre-Hurricane Katrina size after responsibility for 30,000 homeowner policies is transferred to private insurers. |
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Tuesday, May 06 2008 |
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ZACHARY, LA (AP) — Investigators say a complicated love triangle led to the killings of a Baker woman and her 3-year-old son at a park in Zachary. |
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Tuesday, May 06 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Some lawmakers took offense at a letter from Gov. Bobby Jindal, in which he threatened to line-item veto the add-ons they often insert into the state's budget each year. |
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Monday, May 05 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The state's hurricane recovery chief said he hopes to shrink the wait time by as much as six months for homeowners appealing grant awards from the Road Home program. |
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