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Company: 3-D data show sinkhole subsurface stable
LAFAYETTE (AP) — New results from a seismic survey of the 13-acre sinkhole in Assumption Parish suggest that the subsurface is stable, said officials of the company that owns the failed cavern thou...
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School district grading change delayed
BATON ROUGE (AP) — House Education Committee members backed a proposal Wednesday that would require the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to delay using new methods for calculating ...
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Gov. Bobby Jindal
Medicaid expansion rejected by House committee
BATON ROUGE, La. — At attempt to cover more uninsured people in the state’s Medicaid program, as allowed under the federal Affordable Care Act, was rejected Wednesday by a House committee. After fi...
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Child predators sting charges include porn with juvies, indecent behavior, solicitation, incest
BATON ROUGE — Agents with the Louisiana Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force have arrested nine men as part of an undercover investigation targeting child predators across southern Louisiana...
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House panel rejects Medicaid expansion, Senate hearing to come
BATON ROUGE — A Senate committee next week will take up the issue of expanding Medicaid to cover more uninsured, an action a House panel turned down Wednesday. The House Health and Welfare Committe...
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Louisiana news briefs
School bus driver cited for RR crossing violation LAFAYETTE — A school bus driver in Lafayette Parish has received a traffic ticket and faces disciplinary action for allegedly driving around the a...
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Jindal disputes Medicaid expansion savings
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal disagreed Tuesday with a nonpartisan financial analysis done for lawmakers that estimated the state could save more than $500 million over 10 years by expanding...
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Reef fund remains hot legislative issue
By John Maginnis & Jeremy Alford LaPolitics.com BATON ROUGE – A committee hearing that was scheduled Monday for a bill to place the Artificial Reef Development Fund in the state constitution was...
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PSC’s energy efficienty move challenged
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Supporters of a statewide energy efficiency program on Monday sued the Louisiana Public Service Commission over its handling of a decision to shelve the program. Three organizati...
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Online accounts would be off-limits to employers
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Employers and school officials would be banned from demanding access to the personal online accounts of potential employees or students, under a proposal that won approval Monday...
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Cigarette tax hike shelved amid opposition
BATON ROUGE (AP) — A bid to raise cigarette taxes to the rates charged in neighboring Texas stalled in the House tax committee Monday, as lawmakers continue to show resistance to raising any of Lou...
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Louisiana news briefs
Mother of dismembered stripper wants justice NEW ORLEANS — The mother of a woman whose dismembered body washed ashore in Mississippi nearly a year ago wants the killer or killers brought to justi...
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