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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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Texas Oil Company Sentenced to Pay $12 Million for Clean Air Act Violations and Obstruction Crimes in Louisiana
Sentence is the largest ever criminal fine in Louisiana for air pollution
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Vidalia man killed in single vehicle crash
Late yesterday afternoon, December 15, a single vehicle crash killed a man from Vidalia. Troopers responded to the crash around 5:40 pm, which occurred on US Hwy 84 in Vidalia. The crash involved...
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Unrestrained Driver Killed in Single-Vehicle Crash, Impairment Suspected
Louisiana State Police, Troop A investigated a single-vehicle crash early this morning in Pointe Coupee Parish. The crash occurred on LA 413 north of US 190 at 4:00 am, and claimed the life of the...
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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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Lake Charles attorney arrested for rape
Lake Charles - On November 9, 2011, detectives with the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations received a complaint from a female in reference to a rape. The investigation revealed the 2...
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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...
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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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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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