BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Plans for spending more than $1billion in newly approved federal flood recovery money will be discussed at a Jan. 6 meeting of the Restore Louisiana Task Force. U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dillard University in New Orleans and the Housing Authority of St. John the Baptist Parish are the Louisiana recipients of newly announced federal grants to help people find jobs and achieve economic independence. A Department of ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Teams from Australia, New York and California are among five finalists in Tulane University’s $1 million contest to find ways to fight “dead zones” where water holds too little oxygen to support life. There are hundreds ...
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FERRIDAY, La. (AP) — Ferriday police are looking for missing equipment signed out to employees who left or were fired during the past four years, but a department consultant believes the items will be returned. The Ferriday Board of Alderman ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards and Louisiana’s lawmakers didn’t need to wait for Christmas to get the lump of coal in their stockings. They already knew about the financial headaches they’ll have to tackle in 2017. ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Legislature has spent at least $98,000 for lawmakers to travel to conferences and meet with colleagues in other states since they wrapped up their legislative sessions this year. Thirty-five of 105 House members ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Early next year, crews will begin cleaning out the art deco public hospital abandoned after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans tells WDSU-TV (http://bit.ly/2hQRQe4) that it has awarded ...
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LIVINGSTON, Ala. (AP) — A Louisiana woman is dead after a two-vehicle crash in Sumter County. Alabama State troopers tell Al.com (http://bit.ly/2hl7nDz) that 36-year-old Angela Michelle Primeaux, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was seriously injured when the 2001 Jeep in which ...
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NEW ROADS, La. (AP) — State biologists say the fish kills are over at an oxbow lake in Pointe Coupee Parish where huge numbers of fish died in October and November. The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says in a ...
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DERIDDER, La. (AP) — Beauregard Parish Police Jury members have voted to give themselves a $400 a month raise. With no opposition at a public hearing Thursday, KPLC-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2ilAM0T) jurors voted to raise their pay from $1,200 to $1,600 ...
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HOUMA, La. (AP) — Houma police say a 30-year-old substitute teacher is accused of having sex with three 15- and 16-year-old boys at her home. The Courier (http://bit.ly/2io1YIh) reports that Heidi Domangue was arrested on three counts of carnal knowledge ...
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LIVINGSTON, La. (AP) — The body of a Holden man last seen nearly two weeks ago has been pulled from a pond off James Chapel Road between Albany and Holden. Lori Steele, a spokeswoman for the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office, ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police say a homicide detective has been suspended after being arrested on charges accusing him of hit-and-run, refusing a chemical test, and driving drunk while on duty. Police spokesman Tyler Gamble tells news outlets ...
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This past Tuesday’s Caddo School Board meeting marked the doubling down of the disastrous era of Caddo Supt. Lamar Goree… granting him a contract extension until 2018 (here). While board members lauded the paltry gains of the district as if ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal government has scheduled its last oil lease sale to cover only the most active area in the Gulf of Mexico, with Gulf-wide sales to begin in 2018. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management says ...
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