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LSU launches on-line graduate school program
BATON ROUGE – A new, completely Web-based, distance-learning initiative was launched Monday by Louisiana State University. LSU Online’s initial launch offers graduate students a choice of three ma...
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8-year-old packs loaded pistol in book sack
MONROE – An 8-year-old student was expelled after taking a loaded .22-caliber pistol to school Monday. Monroe Police said the boy was a student at Madison James Foster Elementary School. The scho...
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Horse virus outbreak has La. officials' on watch
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana agriculture officials are monitoring an outbreak of Equine Herpes Virus-1 at the Horse Shows in the Sun equestrian event last month in Ocala, Fla., keeping Louisiana horses ...
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Boustany rules out run against Landrieu
WASHINGTON – Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.), fresh off an expensive re-election campaign, announced Monday that he will not run for Senator Mary Landreiu’s seat next year. Boustany had been floated ...
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Rockerfeller fish lab, complex, at last, to be rebuilt
NEW ORLEANS - The Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced more than $1 million in recovery aid to build a new Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge Fish Lab and Fish Lab Complex, which were destroy...
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Crouch named Morgan City police chief
MORGAN CITY — The city now has a new police chief after more than five months without one. Mayor Frank “Boo” Grizzaffi recommended and the council approved Travis Crouch as the new chief. The coun...
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Unbelted driver dies when pickup rolls, ejects him
VERMILION PARISH - An unrestrained Youngsville man was killed Wednesday morning when his pickup left a curve and overturned, ejecting him. State Police said the accident happened about 4:20 a.m. on...
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Unbelted driver dies when pickup rolls, hits tree
DERIDDER – A DeRidder man died Tuesday night in a one-vehicle crash in Beauregard Parish. State Police said Richard C. West, 45, died when the 2000 Ford pickup truck he was driving on Pleasant Hill...
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Lavergne claims mistreatment at Angola
ANGOLA – Confessed double murdered Brandon Lavergne continues to whine about his plight through more court filings. In the latest round, he claims he is being deprived of privileges accorded other ...
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Marksville man charged in black bear killing
A Marksville man was arrested and booked into the Avoyelles Parish Jail on Monday for his alleged role in the illegal killing of a Louisiana black bear. Derek P. Sayer, 30, was arrested for shootin...
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Eagles, up close, and those who follow them
MORGAN CITY, La. -- The eighth annual Eagle Expo, scheduled Thursday through Saturday, will feature seminars from wildlife and nature experts, a live raptor presentation, boat tours to view eagles ...
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Broussard gets 46 months, others probation in Jefferson Parish fraud scheme
NEW ORLEANS — Aaron F. Broussard, 64, a resident and former two-term president of Jefferson Parish, was sentenced Monday to 46 months by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Hayden Head from the Sout...
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