State News
Mall restricts teenagers' access
ALEXANDRIA –Officials announced a new policy this week banning unsupervised youths from Alexandria Mall on Friday and Saturday nights. Under the new guidelines, anyone under the age of 18 must be a...
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Gay, former defensive back, booked in bar brouhaha
BATON ROUGE – Former New Orleans Saints and LSU defensive back Randall Gay was arrested early Thursday after he allegedly pushed two employees at a Baton Rouge bar and refused to leave the premises...
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Deaths Elsewhere
Catholic educator LAFAYETTE – Services for Catholic educator Sister Bernardine Breaux, MHS will be Saturday. She died May 6 at age 98. She spent 60 years in Education Ministry for the Sisters of th...
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LSU fee bill advances, other tuition bills linger
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Saying a majority of Louisiana’s colleges and universities won’t reach the graduation rates of the Southern regional average by 2016, the House Education Committee chairman angri...
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Louisiana news briefs
Gonzales man claims jackpot BATON ROUGE — A Gonzales man is the winner of the $269,243 Easy 5 jackpot drawing for May 4. The state lottery corporation identifies him as 64-year-old Norbert Godchau...
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La. budget debate delayed
By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana House has delayed its budget debate to Friday, as Republicans continue to haggle over an alternative to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s spending...
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Revised Medicaid expansion backed by House panel
By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE — A proposal that would tap into federal funding available to offer insurance to the working poor narrowly received the backing Wednesday of the Hou...
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LeBlanc with his winning entries.
Erath wildfowl carver a world champion
ERATH – Grant LeBlanc is a “World Champion” Wildfowl Carver. He earned that title after two of his wood-carving ducks captured first place in the intermediate division of the 43rd Annual Ward World...
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Texas man dies when big rig overturns in Sabine
MANY – A Texas man died when his truck overturned in a collision on La. 191 Thursday. State troopers said Tyron Galloway, 39, of Pineland, Texas was driving a 2004 Freightliner that crossed the cen...
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Morganza project moves ahead in Washington HOUMA — Terrebonne’s $13 billion federal levee system cleared a major administrative hurdle when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ senior review panel vo...
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Iberia Parish appointee sues parish government
NEW IBERIA (AP) — A battle between Iberia Parish President Errol Romero and the Parish Council over hiring and budgetary decisions has spilled over into federal court. Romero had hired Holly Leleux...
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Supreme Court rejects vouchers
NEW ORLEANS — The funding method for a private school tuition voucher program pushed through the Legislature last year by Gov. Bobby Jindal is unconstitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesda...
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