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Jindal cuts $141 million from budget, spares health care, higher ed
BATON ROUGE – Gov. Bobby Jindal on Friday cut $140.8 million from the state budget facing a mid-year defict of $251 and instructed the Division of Administration to prepare a plan for the remaining...
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Video voyeur gets 10 years for his restaurant toilet recordings
METAIRIE – An employee who placed video cameras in a restaurant’s women’s toilet will spend 10 years in prison - without his films. Able Saravia was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to one...
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LSUE Foundation auctioning two prime BCS game tickets
Where will you be for the LSU vs. Alabama Allstate BCS Championship Game? You could be in the New Orleans Superdome, on Monday, January 9th, 7:30 PM CST, sitting in Section 143, Row 29, Seat 9 & 10...
Dec 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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St. Landry will consider opposing snare breakaways
OPELOUSAS – The Public Works Committee will recommend to the St. Landry Parish Council that it oppose a move to equip wild game snares with a 300-pound breakaway. The concern is that the breakaway...
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Biker fleeing cops leaves road at more than 120 mph, dies when thrown off
GRAMERCY – A man riding a motorcycle at more than 120 mph could not hold the road in a curve and died when thrown from his bike. State Police said Curtis Nicholson, 47, was fleeing a St. John Paris...
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Eagles, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers highlight Jazz Festival lineup
NEW ORLEANS – First-time headlines Tom Petty & the Heart Breakers and the Eagles will perform at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival April 27-May 6. Also performing at the nation’s premier out...
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Jeffery Lee Guillory gets second life sentence
BATON ROUGE ‑ Jeffery Lee Guillory, suspected of killing several women, got a life sentence Wednesday for strangling a woman her in 2002. The state tied Guillory to the death of Renee Newman using ...
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AgCenter releases two rice varieties - one high yield, the other better lodging resistance
AUSTIN, Texas – The LSU AgCenter announced the release of two new rice varieties on Dec. 8 during the USA Rice Federation Outlook Conference. LSU AgCenter rice breeder Steve Linscombe announced a...
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Hearing set on Evangeline bid for school unitary status
The Evangeline Parish School Board could be applying for unitary status in its desegregation case at the beginning of the new year, according to Superintendent Toni Hamlin, who discussed a recent v...
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Jindal picks Eunice man for wildlife post, reappoints Brousard
Gov. Bobby Jindal on Tuesday appointed Pat Manuel of Eunice to an at-large position on the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission. The appointment is for six years. Manuel will succeed vice chairman Pa...
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LSU introducing new commencement gowns
Some 1,726 potential graduates will be recognized during LSU's 276th commencement exercises on Friday, Dec. 16. This number includes about 1,355 bachelor's degrees, 259 master's and professional de...
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State to School Board: fix finances or we will
The Department of Education delivered a plain-vanilla message to the St. Landry School Board Monday -- get your financial house in order or we will. Deputy Secretary Beth Scioneaux, speaking at the...
Dec 13, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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