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Teacher-coach charged with sexual conduct with player
HAUGHTON – A teacher-coach is accused of having sexual conduct with one of her players. Bossier Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Haughton teacher Friday on charges involving a 17-year-old student. Jes...
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Man accused of attacking girlfriend with bleach EUNICE — A 34-year-old Eunice man remains in jail after his girlfriend told police he held her down and poured bleach on her face and other parts of...
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Jindal cancels contract under review by grand jury
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration announced Thursday it is scrapping a lucrative state Medicaid contract that is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation. Commissioner ...
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LSU president finalist meets with students, staff
BATON ROUGE (AP) — The man expected to be the next president of the LSU system defended the closed-door search that chose him and pledged Thursday to work closely with university faculty despite th...
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BP seeks sanctions over missing cement samples
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP asked a federal judge Thursday to sanction its cement contractor on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon drilling project, accusing the company of withholding critical evidence tha...
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Gov. Bobby Jindal
PAR: Jindal plan is $650M short of ‘revenue neutral’
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal’s tax code rewrite could cost the state as much as $650 million in lost revenue, rather than being “revenue neutral” as the governor claims, according to a nonp...
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Eunice man accused of attacking girlfriend with bleach
EUNICE, La.. — A 34-year-old Eunice man remains in jail after his girlfriend told police he held her down and poured bleach on her face and other parts of her body. Police said Chance Ceasar is bei...
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Gulf lease sale draws $1.2 billion in high bids NEW ORLEANS — A nearly 39 million-acre oil and gas lease sale Wednesday for the central Gulf of Mexico drew $1.2 billion in high bids by offshore en...
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Man gets 30 years in plea deal for 5 killings in N.O.
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge Wednesday approved a 30-year plea bargain for a man who admitted killing an off-duty police officer and four other men, includin...
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Louisiana monks win casket case
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Benedictine monks may keep selling plain, low-cost caskets from their monastery outside New Orleans, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, finding that a regulation that only ...
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LSU Faculty Senate questions board
BATON ROUGE (AP) — LSU professors are questioning the credentials of the contender to be university system president, and delivered notice Wednesday of a stinging vote of no confidence in the gover...
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Retired teacher, blind man perish in house fire
PATTERSON — A retired St. Mary Parish educator perished along with another person in an early morning fire that destroyed both her home and a day care center next door in Patterson. Barbara Hall a...
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