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Records in LSU presidential search not released
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Two Louisiana news organizations are asking a judge to punish LSU's Board of Supervisors for not releasing documents related the university's presidential search. Lori Mince...
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Stews recalled over labels lacking ingredients
CHURCH POINT, La. (AP) — Acadian Fine Foods LLC is recalling 17,000 pounds of pork and chicken stews because labels don't list whey and soy as ingredients. Some people are allergic to those substan...
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Propoals to tie school funding to student perfomance advance
BATON ROUGE, La. — Proposals to tie public funding to student performance and issue letter grades to Louisiana’s public and private early childhood education programs are finding easy passage throu...
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La. accepting bids for alligator hunting tags BATON ROUGE — State officials are accepting bids for alligator hunting on Wildlife Management Areas and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers properties. Bidde...
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Reworked budget plan takes shape in La. House
BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana House coalesced Thursday behind a rewritten, $24.7 billion budget compromise that dumps many financing plans sought by Gov. Bobby Jindal in favor of cuts to tax bre...
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Monroe board picks new school super
MONROE -- The Monroe City School Board on Thursday picked Neville High School Principal Brent Vidrine as its next superintendent. The board voted 5-1-1 in favor of Vidrine. The finalists were Vidr...
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Mall restricts teenagers' access
ALEXANDRIA –Officials announced a new policy this week banning unsupervised youths from Alexandria Mall on Friday and Saturday nights. Under the new guidelines, anyone under the age of 18 must be a...
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Gay, former defensive back, booked in bar brouhaha
BATON ROUGE – Former New Orleans Saints and LSU defensive back Randall Gay was arrested early Thursday after he allegedly pushed two employees at a Baton Rouge bar and refused to leave the premises...
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Deaths Elsewhere
Catholic educator LAFAYETTE – Services for Catholic educator Sister Bernardine Breaux, MHS will be Saturday. She died May 6 at age 98. She spent 60 years in Education Ministry for the Sisters of th...
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LSU fee bill advances, other tuition bills linger
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Saying a majority of Louisiana’s colleges and universities won’t reach the graduation rates of the Southern regional average by 2016, the House Education Committee chairman angri...
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gonzales man claims jackpot BATON ROUGE — A Gonzales man is the winner of the $269,243 Easy 5 jackpot drawing for May 4. The state lottery corporation identifies him as 64-year-old Norbert Godchau...
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La. budget debate delayed
By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana House has delayed its budget debate to Friday, as Republicans continue to haggle over an alternative to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s spending...
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