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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police reported three killings over nine hours this weekend in New Orleans. One of the victims was a 15-year-old boy. |
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Monday, May 12 2008 |
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HOUMA, La. (AP) - A 23-year-old Schriever man died after his truck hit a tree. |
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Monday, May 12 2008 |
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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - The Shreveport City Council this week will consider an addition to the city liquor law. |
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Monday, May 12 2008 |
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LAROSE, La. (AP) _ Louisiana State Police say a mother and two of her children died after their vehicle was hit by a van whose driver had fallen asleep. |
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Monday, May 12 2008 |
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KENNER, La. (AP) _ Authorities investigating a bomb threat against a Northwest Airlines plane cleared the plane and an entire concourse at Louisiana's largest commercial airport. |
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Sunday, May 11 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal's $30 billion budget proposal for next year was pared down Sunday by $120 million, after the House's budget committee stripped millions of dollars in health care and education spending sought by the governor. |
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Saturday, May 10 2008 |
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Archbishop Alfred Hughes is pledging at least $50,000 in aid from the New Orleans archdiocese to victims of the cyclone in Myanmar. |
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Saturday, May 10 2008 |
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The opening of a major spillway near New Orleans poured much less river water into Lake Pontchartrain than it did in 1997, when a major algae bloom caused several fish kills. |
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Saturday, May 10 2008 |
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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) — James Bernazzani — the tough-talking FBI chief sent to New Orleans three years ago to fight public corruption — retired on Friday. |
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Friday, May 09 2008 |
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LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A former radio host accused of killing his estranged wife will be tried in September rather than next week. |
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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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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana hospital wasn't obligated to notify a doctor's new employer that he had been fired for practicing while under the influence of narcotics, a federal appeals court ruled this week, tossing out a multimillion dollar verdict. |
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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) — Income from a special 4-cent state gasoline tax is not keeping up with soaring construction costs, meaning two New Orleans area transportation projects are in jeopardy. |
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Friday, May 09 2008 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Baton Rouge-based Coca-Cola bottling plant is expanding and adding 113 jobs. |
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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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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Prosecutors have abandoned an effort to remove the judge in the case of six New Orleans police officers and one former officer charged in the shootings of six people in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina. |
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Friday, May 09 2008 |
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For much of the past year, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival's signature gold flag, with its trademark silhouette of a second-line parade, has been flying outside a colorful flag shop at the corner of Magazine Street and Jackson Avenue. |
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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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