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Driver dies when pickup hit by train; wet road, worn tires blamed
SWARTZ – A driver who couldn’t stop in time was killed when a freight train rammed his pickup Tuesday evening. State Police said Jason Hensley, 22, of Lake Providence was killed in the accident at ...
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American Bald Eagles perch in a cypress in South Louisiana. The 6th annual Louisiana Eagle Expo will be in Morgan City on Feb. 10-12. Schedule: 985-395-4905.
Eagles' poisoining adds to baffling Louisiana wildlife file
NEW ORLEANS – Another baffling and enraging maltreatment of wildlife has been added to the Louisiana file. Federal investigators report that someone poisoned and killed two bald eagles in Thibodaux...
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Orange-colored oil slicks can be seen in the water where recovery operations were taking place at the Deepwater Horizon rig site in the Gulf of Mexico in May 2010. The rig explosion on April 20, 2010, killed 11 workers and unleashed an estimated 200 million gallons of crude oil.
Limits on oil spill money fails
BATON ROUGE, La. — Attempts to limit Gulf Coast oil spill penalty money to coastal restoration in the Louisiana Constitution failed to gain legislative passage for a second year, while disagreement...
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Louisiana news briefs
‘Parent trigger’ bill for Recovery School District signed BATON ROUGE — Parents will soon be able to try to get poor-performing schools in the Recovery School District returned to local control. G...
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Exhibit looks at early Louisiana ‘Pipe Dreams’
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In the early 1700s, France sent thousands of colonists and slaves to Louisiana in the belief that tobacco would refill a treasury drained by wars. That period of envisioning the ...
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Fishing for Memories rodeo adds two categories for June 20-23 event
ABBEVILLE – Fishing for Memories: A Benefit Rodeo for the Alzheimer’s Association beginning June 20 added a 14th category in response to the extension of the Red Snapper Season by NOAA. This additi...
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Louisiana news briefs
Port Allen’s budget faces uncertain future PORT ALLEN — It’s doubtful Mayor Demetric Slaughter’s $9.7 million proposed spending plan for the 2013-14 fiscal year will gain the approval it needs fr...
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2,000 walk, run to celebrate wider Huey P. Long Bridge
JEFFERSON (AP) — Vintage and modern cars carried about 20 people who had attended the Huey P. Long Bridge’s original opening in 1935 and more than 2,000 runners and walkers from around Louisiana cr...
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End of BP cleaning crews leaves questions along Gulf Coast
GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — Finding tar balls linked to the BP oil spill isn’t difficult on some Gulf Coast beaches, but the company and the government say it isn’t common enough to keep sending out t...
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Terrebonne Parish to implement freshwater plan
HOUMA (AP) — Terrebonne Parish officials are moving ahead with a project designed to dump freshwater from the Houma Navigation Canal into endangered coastal forests north of the Falgout Canal. The ...
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La. constitutional changes going to voters
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana lawmakers are proposing eight new changes to the state constitution following their regular session, including new protections from steep budget cuts for certain health...
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Public defenders running deficits
BATON ROUGE, La. — Continuing to struggle to represent clients who can’t afford attorneys, nearly 70 percent of Louisiana’s public defenders offices ran deficits last year, forcing them to dip heav...
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