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Cottonport Bank opens Baton Rouge branch
BATON ROUGE – The Cottonport Bank has opened a branch in Baton Rouge, its first in a major metropolitan city. The bank, founded in Cottonport in 1902, operates branches in Avoyelles, Ppinte Coupee...
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Caddo cuts 107 teaching slots
SHREVEPORT – The Caddo Parish School Board eliminated 107 elementary and high school teaching positions Wednesday, part of the strategy toward reducing a $21.5 million deficit. The cuts, mostly thr...
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LSU privatization deals OK’d
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The LSU Board of Supervisors approved contracts Tuesday to privatize four more of the university system’s public hospitals, even though the agreements were missing key finan...
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Louisiana news briefs -- RPG kills soldier, 20, from Tickfaw in Afganistan
RPG kills soldier, 20, from Tickfaw in Afganistan NEW ORLEANS — The Defense Department says a 20-year-old soldier from Tickfaw has been killed in Afghanistan by a rocket-propelled grenade. A news ...
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Senate backs protection for hospital funding
BATON ROUGE (AP) — The Louisiana Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly backed proposals that would make it more difficult to reduce dollars paid to private hospitals and nursing homes for taking care of...
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Exxon lobbyist
Exxon lobbyist, former Duke athlete BATON ROUGE – Services for former Duke University football and baseball player and Exxon Louisiana government affairs manager Roy Marley, Jr. will be Friday. He ...
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Louisiana Guard Soldier killed in Afghanistan
Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE, La. – The U.S. Department of Defense announced today the death of a Louisiana National Guard Soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring ...
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Centralized debt collection is a work in progress in La.
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Lawmakers looking to boost dollars for state expenses are trying to reach a compromise to centralize and toughen debt collection efforts, with estimates that the move could drum ...
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Louisiana news briefs
Baby water snakes slither in La. Capitol basement BATON ROUGE — Snakes are slithering around the basement of Louisiana’s state Capitol. And Democrats and Republicans have the same question. “We’r...
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Terrebonne says floodgates ready for storm season HOUMA — Two new floodgates in Terrebonne Parish are ready for any threat during the coming hurricane season, local levee officials said. The new g...
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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.
Oil spill restoration draft plan released
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — There’s now a draft plan for using fines from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill to restore the Gulf Coast’s natural resources and economy. But the document released Thursday does...
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WW2 Marine’s diary: A brief look at a brief life
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Before Cpl. Thomas “Cotton” Jones was killed by a Japanese sniper in the South Pacific in 1944, he wrote what he called his “last life request” ...
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