SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Shreveport businesswoman is appearing on a television show about people who make their fortunes in blue-collar jobs or industries. Laura FitzGerald is the president of the Shreveport oil and gas exploration company Ilios Resources. The ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards is suggesting a special budget-rebalancing legislative session may be likely to close a looming midyear deficit. The size of the gap will be decided next week. The Democratic governor said Friday ...
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HAHNVILLE, La. (AP) — A St. Charles Parish teacher is in custody after investigators uncovered evidence that she and her husband were running a meth lab at the home they shared with their 7-year-old child. Sheriff’s spokesman Capt. Pat Yoes ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is submitting its plan to spend $438 million in federal flood recovery aid, a move Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration says should have money flowing by April. Nearly all the money, under the plan ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit that accuses a Louisiana police officer of forcing two women to expose their breasts so he could photograph them during a roadside encounter. A court filing ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office plans to address long-standing problems within the jail by building a new facility for mentally ill inmates and expanding an existing facility for juvenile inmates. News outlets report the OSPO was ...
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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Hyundai subsidiary is moving into the former General Motors plant in Shreveport. Louisiana Economic Development announced Wednesday that California-based Glovis America will establish a distribution center at the site. There, workers will outfit imported vehicles ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Weather Service counts at least eight tornadoes that hit Louisiana Monday. Survey teams conclude twisters damaged parts of Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Rapides and Tangipahoa parishes. The most powerful storm, rated EF-1 on the enhanced ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards tapped 15 people over the holidays to fill vacancies for Louisiana’s college management boards, many of them contributors to the governor’s campaign fund. He named six people to the 15-member Board ...
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OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — Louisiana has a new member of the state Supreme Court. Republican Jimmy Genovese, formerly an appeals court judge, was sworn in Tuesday to the seven-member high court at a ceremony in his hometown of Opelousas. He’ll ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s newest U.S. senator, Republican John Kennedy, has taken the oath of office as the latest term of Congress began. Also sworn in Tuesday were two new U.S. House members for Louisiana’s delegation: Republicans Clay ...
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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A former LSU football player is offering to pay anyone who returns his SEC Championship ring and other football mementos that were stolen from his Louisiana home. Seth Fruge was a walk-on special-teams player at LSU ...
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RESERVE, La. (AP) — A barge spilled about 500 gallons of diesel oil into the Mississippi River during a fuel transfer in Reserve, upstream from New Orleans. United States Coast Guard Lt. Brian Dochtermann tells NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune (http://bit.ly/2j4yDGU) that a ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal lawsuit claims sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a 27-year-old man in his southwest Louisiana home after investigators improperly obtained a warrant to search his residence for drugs. The Dec. 26 lawsuit accuses a ...
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THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — To address the struggling local economy, the South Louisiana Economic Council wants to help retain and expand area businesses and aggressively market the bayou region to new industries. That’s part of the economic development agency’s 2017-19 ...
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