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LaHouse open house to showcase storm-hardy home features
BATON ROUGE – With the 2013 hurricane season officially underway, the LSU AgCenter’s LaHouse Home and Landscape Resource Center will showcase hurricane and flood-hardy features for both new and exi...
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Fishing for Memories rodeo adds two categories for June 20-23 event
ABBEVILLE – Fishing for Memories: A Benefit Rodeo for the Alzheimer’s Association beginning June 20 added a 14th category in response to the extension of the Red Snapper Season by NOAA. This additi...
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Child predator gets 99 year sentence in child molestation and pornography case
HOUMA – Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced today that a Houma man was sentenced to 99 years at hard labor after pleading guilty to eight counts of molestation of a juvenile under the age of ...
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Woman's car hits tree, she dies
WISNER – A Wisner woman was killed in a car crash on Sunday night in Franklin Parish. The dead woman was identified as 25-year-old Memory Roberts, said Louisiana State Police. Roberts was driving a...
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Colorado man sentenced fro identity fraud, passport fraud
Crimes committed in Louisiana and Colorado SHREVEPORT – United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that William Lyman Agnew, 55, of Cripple Creek, Colo., was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. Di...
Jun 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 41 41 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hundreds removed from La. sex registry
NEW ORLEANS – Following the settlement of a class-action lawsuit, hundreds of people will have their name removed from Louisiana’s sex offender registry. Those removed were convicted of soliciting ...
Jun 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 46 46 recommendations | email to a friend
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Superintendent White to host conversation in Alexandria
BATON ROUGE - Friday, State Superintendent of Education John White will host a discussion at Central Louisiana Technical Community College in Alexandria with parents, students, educators and commun...
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Reminder: IRS To Be Closed June 14 Due to Budget and Sequester; Filing and Payment Deadlines Unchanged
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today reminded taxpayers that, due to the current budget situation including the sequester, the agency will be shut down on Friday, June 14. As was the ca...
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LOUISIANA CONNECTIONS ACADEMY A FREE VIRTUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL TO HOLD INFORMATION SESSIONS
Online and in-person information sessions to be held in June & July Louisiana Connections Academy, a fully accredited provider of high-quality, highly accountable virtual K-12 schooling, is enrol...
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THNOC’s latest exhibition looks at early Louisiana colonial commerce
Items on display illustrate regional Indian cultures, tobacco economy under the Company of the Indies NEW ORLEANS — Long before New Orleans became the Queen of the South and Louisiana made a name f...
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McNeese State University Leisure Learning Program
The McNeese State University Leisure Learning Program will offer several non-credit courses in June, which are designed for self-improvement and enjoyment. The following courses will be offered: M...
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Commissioner Foster Campbell Plans Public Utility Meetings
Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell will hold public meetings in Caddo and Bossier parishes June 19 to answer questions from local residents about their utilities. “I invite cit...
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