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AAUP criticizes Southern’s treatment of faculty in cuts
BATON ROUGE (AP) — A national organization of university professors is criticizing the way Southern University faculty members were treated immediately after the school declared a financial emergen...
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Jindal’s higher education budget shaky, uncertain says education chief
BATON ROUGE — Gov. Bobby Jindal’s budget proposal would leave colleges with shaky and uncertain financing next year and create cash flow problems at the schools, Louisiana’s higher education commis...
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Audit: Katrina aid may have been misspent
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators said Wednesday that as much as $700 million in federal aid intended to help some 24,000 Louisiana families elevate their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and R...
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Official: Sheriff to blame for NOLA jail problems
NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Mitch Landrieu and his chief administrator turned up the political heat on Sheriff Marlin Gusman on Wednesday, the day after a federal court released videos that showed inmates ...
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Louisiana news briefs
No new plan for Citizens’ budget gap BATON ROUGE — The governing board for Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort didn’t choose an alternate approach Wednesday to balance the company’s books ...
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Jindal, Miss. Gov. praise each other
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal expressed nothing but praise for each other Wednesday just before Jindal gave the keynote speech at a fundraiser f...
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La. man gets prison for plot to defraud BP
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A businessman was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison for a plot in which he fraudulently billed BP for roughly $1.4 million for use of a helicopter after the company’s ma...
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Objections raised to school funding formula change
BATON ROUGE, La. — The House budget committee chairman said Wednesday he disagreed with proposed changes to the public school funding formula that would strip a requirement for how much money must ...
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Rapist pleads guility in 1985 case
WINNFIELD – A man who raped, robbed and terrorized a woman almost 30 years ago has at last been sentenced to prison. Jessie Mills was arrested in 1985 and found guilty in 1987. But the verdict was ...
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Teen cousins die in house fire; path out blocked by furniture
WEST MONROE – Two teenage cousins died when their path to safety from a house fire was blocked by furniture, officials said. Kyle Phillips, 18, and Mitchell Whitehead, 16, were sleeping when the bl...
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September trial set for man accused of killing three over XBox 360
SHREVEPORT – A man accused of killing three brothers in an argument over a gaming system is scheduled for September trial. Marcus Reed, 35, pleaded not guilty to the 2010 of the men he accused of t...
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Cassidy running for U.S. Senate in 2014
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy is running for the Senate next year, seeking to keep Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu from a fourth term in office. Cassidy, a Baton Rouge doc...
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