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Pro-gun bills approved by La. House panel
BATON ROUGE — With gun control being debated at the federal level, Louisiana lawmakers advanced a batch of bills Wednesday they say are aimed at pre-empting any stricter gun laws that could make it...
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Marine Shale clean-up on June completion schedule
AMELIA — Work to finish cleaning up the former Marine Shale Processors site just outside of Amelia, which began in February, is ongoing with June 26 as the projected completion date of the cleanup,...
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Man who walked out of La. trial caught in Philadelphia LAFAYETTE — U.S. marshals in Philadelphia have caught a 43-year-old Louisiana man who walked away from his trial on charges including vehicula...
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Judge chides corps over New Orleans levees
NEW ORLEANS — The Army Corps of Engineers built a “tragically flawed” levee system for New Orleans — but isn’t liable for claims that excavation work by a government contractor weakened a floodwall...
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Ex-BP executive testifies at Gulf oil spill trial
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The first phase of a trial over the deadly Deepwater Horizon disaster neared an end Wednesday with testimony by a former BP executive who helped supervise the company's Gulf of M...
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Senate seeks oversight over LSU hospital changes
BATON ROUGE (AP) — The Louisiana Senate approved a requirement Tuesday that Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration get approval from its budget committee to privatize LSU’s hospitals, but the governor’...
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Unbelted teen driver dies after vehicle hits tree
BASTROP – A Bastrop girl died when the vehicle she was driving hit a tree late Monday night. State Police said Tori Johnson, 16, was driving south on Louisiana 830-4 when she lost control of the v...
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UL-Monroe AD resigns
MONROE – University of Louisiana at Monroe athletic director Bobby Staub is resigning after eight years in the post. Neither he nor university President Nick Bruno had much to say about Staub’s dec...
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Fishing piers survive -- for now
ABBEVILLE – A group of Vermilion Parish fishermen have rallied to save the five piers along La. 82. Last week at a committee meeting, the jury voted to remove the fishing piers because it was too c...
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Ex-Broussard cop pleads to molestation charges LAFAYETTE — A former school resource officer for the Broussard Police Department pleaded guilty to multiple counts of molesting a juvenile. Henry Ba...
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BP manager testifies he didn’t have any safety concerns before deadly blast
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A BP team leader who supervised managers on the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 testified Monday that he was frustrated by last-minute changes to the drilling...
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Audit: La. may owe feds for misspent storm aid
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana may owe the federal government more than $115 million for disaster relief aid that was misspent or awarded to ineligible recipients after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a...
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