State News
House committee strips $500M from budget
BATON ROUGE (AP) — The Louisiana House budget-writing committee Monday advanced a $24 billion spending plan for next year that could force steep cuts on colleges and health services, but few lawmak...
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Property tax hikes may be phased-in BATON ROUGE — Property owners whose annual tax assessments increase by 15 percent or more in one year would be allowed to pay that increase over a three-year pe...
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Deaths Elsewhere
Retired Nicholls professor HOUMA – Services for former Nicholls State University professor Loretta Haddad will be Tuesday. She died April 20 at age 77. She was a piano professor at Nicholls St. Sur...
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1 man killed in head-on crash DUSON — State police say a 43-year-old Duson man was killed over the weekend in a two-vehicle crash in Lafayette Parish. The accident happened Saturday on La. 724. Tr...
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Steady rain greets Jazz Fest as 1st weekend closes
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A steady, sometimes heavy rain pelted fans Sunday at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, but the music flowed on. A soaked Dave Matthews and his band played through a str...
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Researchers suspect BP oil spill affected insect life
NEW YORK (AP) — They sweep. They swab. They sterilize. And still the germs persist. In U.S. hospitals, an estimated 1 in 20 patients pick up infections they didn’t have when they arrived, some caus...
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Steep cuts are part of budget maneuvering
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana House leaders have devised a budget-cutting plan that would force steep cuts to health care and colleges, but only as a maneuver to get next year’s more than $24 billion spe...
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St. Helena to take up strip club regulations
ST. HELENA – Strip clubs will be back on the Police Jury runway Tuesday night. Strip clubs have been the focus of most residents in St. Helena Parish for some years now. Some supporting them and o...
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Seahawks' Simon's encounter with detective was second in two nights; alleged resistance stopped after Taser 'painting'
NFL draftee and former LSU defensive back Tharold Simon of Eunice dropped resistance when Taser “painted” by the officer arresting him late Thursday night, the second night he had encountered polic...
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Pepiton
Man allegedly takes bat to head of another
DUPONT – A man who alleged used a baseball bat on the head of another is charged with attempted second-degree murder. According to Avoyelles Sheriff Doug Anderson, Brandon Pepiton, 31, of Dupont, a...
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August
Teen held in Abbeville slaying
ABBEVILLE – A teenager is charged with killing another in a Friday night shooting here. Walter August, 18, of Abbeville was charged early Monday with the second-degree murder of Jovontae Charles, ...
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Louisiana news briefs
Judge to LSU: release all names of prez candidates BATON ROUGE — A state district judge in Baton Rouge has ruled that LSU’s search for a new president was conducted in illegal secrecy. Judge Janic...
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