BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s state prisons agency has done an inadequate job ensuring that violent criminals aren’t assigned to work in the State Capitol and Governor’s Mansion, the state’s legislative auditor concluded in a report released Monday. None ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police are investigating an officer-involved crash that happened in Baton Rouge. WBRZ-TV reports ( http://bit.ly/2gwqbQ4 ) the crash happened around 7:45 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of Siegen Lane and Rieger Road. Baton Rouge Police ...
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PAINCOURTVILLE, La. (AP) — Neighbors of a Paincourtville man whose house was struck by a tornado earlier this year, destroying his Christmas decorations, are helping him celebrate the holiday spirit. WAFB-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2gDkQES ) that neighbors came out Sunday to ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The University of New Orleans is hosting a program this week about the 1838 sale of hundreds of slaves to benefit Georgetown University. The event Wednesday is titled “Sold South: Tracing a Jesuit Slave Community from ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Congress has approved more than $1.25 billion for Louisiana’s flood recovery. The additional allocation approved Friday means Congress has dedicated between $1.8 billion and $1.9 billion, including an initial $438 million in disaster relief funds, for ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Fresh off a landslide win, U.S. Sen.-elect John Kennedy said Sunday he’ll head to Washington this week for orientation, but doesn’t plan to immediately relinquish his job as state treasurer. The Republican winner of this ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards met privately with Donald Trump while the president-elect was in Baton Rouge to rally for the Republican candidate in Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race. The Democratic governor said he congratulated Trump on ...
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ST. JAMES, La. (AP) — A woman is dead and a man is hospitalized after an apparent murder-attempted suicide in St. James Parish. Sheriff Willy Martin says it happened about 4:30 p.m. Thursday at a home in the Town of ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied Gov. John Bel Edwards’ request to lessen Louisiana’s share of disaster response costs after March flooding that inundated north and central Louisiana. Louisiana’s share of the federal response ...
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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A 400-year-old human heart that belongs to a Catholic saint is making a temporary home at a Shreveport church. The Shreveport Times (http://bit.ly/2hbGbne ) reports that the heart of St. John Berchmans arrived Thursday at a ...
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PONCHATOULA, La. (AP) The State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the death of a 66-year-old Ponchatoula man who died in front of his kitchen gas stove that he was using as a heating source. In a news release, state officials ...
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PLAQUEMINE, La. (AP) — State police say the manager of a Plaquemine restaurant is accused of illegally operating a computer-based casino. In a news release Thursday, troopers say the arrest of Adolfo Gonzales-Lopez, manager of the La Rumba Mexican Grill, ...
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DONALDSONVILLE, La. (AP) — A former deputy with the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office has been arrested on three counts of malfeasance and three counts of introduction of contraband to a penal institution. Sheriff Jeff Wiley said in a news release ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal prosecutor in New Orleans says a Mandeville man has been sentenced to nine months in prison for his fraudulent receipt of Veterans Administration benefits. U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite’s (poh-LEET’s) Thursday news release says ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards looked ahead Thursday to next year’s legislative session, saying Louisiana needs to enact a tax structure that is fair, predictable and “sufficient” to pay for state services. “We don’t have it ...
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