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Boy Scouts to allow gay youths to join
Delegates to the annual meeting of the Boy Scouts of America made a monumental statement Thursday, voting to allow openly gay youths to join ...
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Louisiana Passes Measure To Criminalize Reporting On Gun Owners
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons) In the latest move by Louisiana to plow ahead with looser gun laws, the state legislature passed a measure that would criminalize journalists for publishing information about gun owners. ...
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Judge wont let Orleans out of police reform pact
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A federal judge has refused to let the city of New Orleans out of a potentially expensive agreement to reform its troubled police ...
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Former school bus driver pleads guilty to drug trafficking other charges
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - A former East Baton Rouge Parish School System bus driver pleaded guilty Thursday on drug trafficking and money laundering charges. She was sentenced in federal court to 28 months. The 47 year old Baton Rouge resident, Naeemah Emile, pleaded guilty to money laundering and possession with intent to distribute and distribution of crack cocaine and hydrocodone. ...
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Lawmakers hold ceremony for fallen Louisiana soldiers
Brett Moree reflected on the lives of some of the seven thousand fallen soldiers at Port Hudson National Cemetery Thursday, as he and his coworker planted American flags at the base of tombstones. "It's amazing to see some of the campaigns these men and women have fought in," said Moree. Moree who served 20 years in the Marine Corps himself, says the constant reminders from his ...
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Jindal adviser LSU privatization deals on track
hospitals BATON ROUGE - Gov. Bobby Jindal's top budget architect says the state will have enough money to cover the costs of privatizing all but one of the 10 LSU-run hospitals. Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols says all deals will be completed next month. Nichols was addressing questions raised by the Legislature's financial analysts about whether next year's ...
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Grand jury selected to review Medicaid contract
Contract BATON ROUGE- The Louisiana attorney general's office says a special grand jury has been selected to look into possible criminal activity involving the award of a $200 million Medicaid contract by Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration. It's part of an ongoing investigation into the award of the now-canceled contract for Client Network Services Inc., or CNSI. The issue ...
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End-of-the-year celebration goes up in smoke at Lafayette elementary no injuries
LAFAYETTE, LA (NBC33) - An end-of-the-year celebration at an elementary school in Lafayette ended in flames this afternoon. The good news is that no one was hurt. The fire broke out at roughly 3:00 p.m. at Prairie Elementary. The school had various small carnival rides set up for the children. After the festivities ended, one of the rides went up in flames. "We were at the carnival all ...
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NOAA predicts extremely active season 3 to 6 major hurricanes
NATIONAL NEWS (NOAA) - In its 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook issued today, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center is forecasting an active or extremely active Atlantic hurricane season this year. For the six-month hurricane season, which begins June 1, NOAA's Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook says there is a 70 percent likelihood of 13 to 20 named storms (winds of 39 mph or ...
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Golden Gate Petroleum to production test Louisiana oil well
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Golden Gate Petroleum (ASX: GGP) will soon participate in production testing of the Hensarling-1 well in the Napoleonville Project, Louisiana. A workover rig is scheduled to arrive today to run the completion operation and commence production testing from the Cris R III sands, which has 49 feet of net oil pay.Another 31 feet of net pay was intersected in ...
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4 vehicles 1 in lake in Pontchartrain accident
The causeway's manager says the lone occupant of that car was rescued by emergency workers and appeared to be in good shape. No serious injuries have been reported so far in the Thursday afternoon accident. Other details on the accident and what caused it were not immediately ...
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Mathieu signs with the Cardinals
Phoenix, AZ (WAFB) - The Arizona Cardinals announced Thursday that the team had reached a four year deal with Tyrann Mathieu. The team did not disclose the financial terms of Mathieu's ...
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Special grand jury selected to look into Medicaid contract.
By MELINDA DESLATTE - BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The Louisiana attorney general's office says a special grand jury has been selected to look into possible criminal activity involving the award of a $200 million Medicaid contract by Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration. Assistant Attorney General Butch Wilson told a judge that the grand jury was being empaneled Thursday as part of an ...
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Causeway closed in both directions after 3 car crash
LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN CAUSEWAY (WAFB/WWL) - According to WWL-TV in New Orleans, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is closed in both directions after a three vehicle crash. Reports are that one vehicle has gone into the water. There is no word on injuries or what caused the crash. St. Tammany Fire Department is on the way to the ...
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Senate rejects move to stop Common Core standards
The Louisiana Senate has killed a resolution that sought to keep the state from using a set of uniform national standards for public school testing, called Common Core ...
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2 booked in Rapides church break-in
ALEXANDRIA - A man and woman have been arrested in connection with the burglary and vandalism of a church in Rapides Parish. The Town Talk reports that Nathaniel Thomas Burns, 24, of Woodworth and Jessica Davis Dousay, 22, of Pineville were booked this week at the Rapides Parish jail. Both face charges of trespassing, criminal damage to property and simple burglary of a religious building. ...
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Plaquemines Parish man arrested for having sex with juvenile he met online
PLAQUEMINES PARISH, LA - A Northshore resident has been booked on after chatting online with a juvenile and proceeding to have sex with her. On Monday, May 20 at around 11:50 p.m., patrol deputies with Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office encountered a suspicious vehicle parked behind a business in the 2200 block of Engineers Road in Belle Chasse. Deputies learned that a 14-year-old ...
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State Police share Clyde Barrows fingerprint card on 79th anniversary of death
It took 51 years but 73-year-old Felix Vail is finally facing serious questions in the 1962 death of his wife Mary Horton. Felix claimed they were out checking trotlines on the Calcasieu River when ...
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DOTD studying highway paths around sinkhole
study BATON ROUGE - The Department of Transportation and Development said they're studying the area around the Assumption Parish sinkhole for a possible alternate highway in case La. 70 is compromised. DOTD recently installed several monitoring stations along the highway and three bridges over Bayou Corne, Grand Bayou and Bayou Choupique to detect movement and changes in elevation near ...
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Pit bull found in median on I-110 had to euthanized due to injuries
Congestion on I-10 West is now from the I-10/I-12 Junction to Dalrymple due to a crash on the left shoulder on I-10 West past ...
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Man accused of torturing dog has past arrest for assault
Congestion on I-10 West is now from the I-10/I-12 Junction to Dalrymple due to a crash on the left shoulder on I-10 West past ...
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Efforts to end sugar program fail in Congress
bill WASHINGTON D.C. - Louisiana's $3.5 billion sugarcane and sugar mill industries could breathe a sigh of relief after an effort to effectively end the federal sugar program was defeated on the Senate floor. The nearly $1 trillion Senate farm bill being debated this week keeps the federal sugar program intact and provides the option for price-control insurance for southwestern ...
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27-year-old unrestrained driver killed in two-vehicle crash impairment suspected
BEAUREGARD PARISH, LA (NBC33) - A DeRidder man died last night in a two-vehicle crash. Officials say he was not wearing a seatbelt and he was ejected from his truck. The Louisiana State Police responded to the scene of the crash at roughly 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22. It happened on Hwy 26 east of U.S. Hwy 171 in Beauregard Parish. Brian Lavelle Martin, 27, was driving his truck down LA ...
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DOTD installs enhanced monitoring equipment near Bayou Corne sinkhole
Assumption Parish, La - The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development will use enhanced monitoring along La. 70, near the Assumption Parish sinkhole. The improvements will provide broader observation and greater accuracy in measuring the area for movement and subsidence. DOTD will be able to use data from these monitoring systems and alert responders via DOTD’s Traffic ...
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Hurricane forecast Another busy Atlantic season
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season.Thursday's outlook calls for 13 to 20 named storms, 7 to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes and 3 to 6 that become major hurricanes.The prediction by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is more than what's considered an average Atlantic season. Last year was the third-busiest ...
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Mayor Holden’s preparing Baton Rouge for the future.
Baton Rouge’s mayor, Kip Holden, has spent most of his tenure as mayor outside the city on foreign or domestic trips to business conferences or meetings aimed at promoting cultural ties. It’s a strategy that has been successfully employed by some of the world’s greatest leaders.
The Mayor of Baton Rouge, Kip Holden, is going out of his way to increase economic activity in Louisiana’s capital by undertaking a series of what one might call ‘promotional’ trips to cities around the US and the world, promoting Baton Rouge as a serious contender for investment by big businesses. Read more
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