State News
Jindal: $340M from BP for Gulf restoration
LAFITTE (AP) — BP PLC has agreed to pay $340 million to restore four of the barrier islands that act as hurricane buffers for Louisiana’s mainland and create two fish research hatcheries in the sta...
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Lawmakers refuse to expand public records access
BATON ROUGE (AP) — The House ethics committee on Tuesday backed Gov. Bobby Jindal’s effort to keep most of his records hidden from public view and rejected a proposal that would have limited the g...
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New Orleans paper is a daily again: The Advocate sold
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Months after cutting its print edition to three days a week, The Times-Picayune of New Orleans on Tuesday announced plans for a three-day-a-week tabloid called TPStreet available...
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Gov. Bobby Jindal
Setbacks vex GOP governors eyeing 2016 race
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican governors are often seen as innovative policymakers and potential presidential candidates, but a few are struggling with political or ethical problems that might crimp ...
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Louisiana news briefs
Ethics panel reduces fine THIBODAUX — State Ethics officials will not rehear arguments about ethics charges against Lafourche Parish President Charlotte Randolph, but they did reduce her fine. Ra...
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Aguillard retains La. College presidency
PINEVILLE – Joe Aguillard remains president of Louisiana College, a post he’s held since January 2005. The Baptist college’s Board of Trustees reached that conclusion in a vote at its special meeti...
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Georges completes Advocate purchases, installs two former Times Picayune editors in top posts
BATON ROUGE – Two former Times Picayune editors were put in key positions by John Georges, new owner of The Advocate. His purchase of the state's largest daily was completed this week. According to...
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La. spent $800M on film tax credits
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana shelled out $800 million over the last five years in tax breaks for the movie industry, according to an audit released Monday that suggests the state gets back little i...
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Justices dismiss La. case over trial delays
WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court dismissed an appeal Monday from a Louisiana man who claimed that most of a seven-year delay between his arrest and murder trial was the result of a...
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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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Louisiana news briefs
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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