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BESE to look at teacher evaluations BATON ROUGE — Louisiana’s top school board is about to consider several changes in the state’s new method for evaluating public school teachers. One of the chang...
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Citizens proposes raising rates 7.7%
BATON ROUGE (AP) — The state’s property insurer of last resort has proposed raising homeowner’s rates an average of 7.7 percent statewide this year. The Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’...
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BP seeks judge’s ruling on size of Gulf oil spill
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP urged a federal judge Friday to rule the company can’t be penalized for millions of gallons of oil that spewed from its blown-out well but was captured before it could spill i...
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BP asked to list spill pollutants
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has revived an environmental group’s lawsuit to make BP PLC list the amount and type of every pollutant that got into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 o...
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Marion Edwards, brother of ex-governor, dead at 84
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Marion Edwards, an amiable, wisecracking political operative and businessman who shared numerous triumphant political campaigns as well as a courtroom defense table with his olde...
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Bar-closing hours before council THIBODAUX — Lafourche Parish Council is considering whether later bar-closing hours on the weekend would provide an economic boost or a law enforcement problem. The...
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Truck rolls over, log hurtles into cab, misses driver
“His seatbelt saved him,” said one Kentwood Volunteer Fireman at the scene of an overturned 18-wheeler A Magnolia, Miss. man escaped serious injury when the log truck he was driving left the highwa...
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Driver swerves on wet road to avoid wire spool, hits building, killed
ABBEVILLE – One person is dead and another injured after an accident Thursday afternoon in Gross Isle. David Hilton, 22 and a 2009 Erath High graduate, died. Hilton was not restrained. A passenger...
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LSU reorganization panel begins its work
BATON ROUGE (AP) — An advisory panel that will offer guidance to the LSU System board about ways to reorganize the system and its campuses started its work Tuesday with a tight timeline, expected t...
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Probe clears former official OPELOUSAS — The state attorney general has cleared former St. Landry Parish President Don Menard of any criminal wrongdoing in connection with a legislative auditor’s ...
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BP oil spill settlement payments exceed $1B mark
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — Businesses and individuals who claim BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost them money have been paid more than $1 billion through the company’s class-action settlement w...
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Possible tornado damages plant in Iberville parish
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — The National Weather Service says an industrial plant in Iberville Parish may have been damaged by a tornado as heavy storms moved through the area Thursday morning. No inju...
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