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Session reaches the midpoint, no bills passed
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Lawmakers reach the midpoint of their annual legislative session next week, with no bills yet reaching final passage, budget negotiations at a critical point and a series of prop...
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Trombone Shorty, Aaron Neville close Jazz Fest
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For more than two decades, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has closed with a performance by the city’s own Neville Brothers. On Sunday, that tradition changed. Aaron N...
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Louisiana news briefs
Terrebonne voters approve water tax HOUMA — Voters have approved a measure that gives Terrebonne membership in the district that provides the bulk of its drinking water and comes with a new 2.11 m...
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Video poker interests get organized
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Video poker interests in Louisiana are organizing to fight possible taxes on the devices. Louisiana Video Gaming Association president Stan Guidroz said video poker operators wan...
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Tremors at Assumption sinkhole halt some work
BAYOU CORNE (AP) — A moderate increase in tremors at the 15.1-acre sinkhole near Bayou Corne has prevented work there since Wednesday, Assumption Parish officials said. They’re not strong enough to...
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Manda meat products returning
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Manda Fine Meats’ deli and specialty meat products began returning to store shelves over the weekend. The Baton Rouge meat packing company said in a news release that it expects...
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Man once declared dead now faces trial
ALEXANDRIA (AP) — Attorneys have a deadline this month to request that jurors be sequestered for the trial of a man who was declared dead, but surfaced years later as a suspect in the deaths of his...
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Lawsuit looming over canceled Medicaid contract
BATON ROUGE (AP) — A Maryland-based company whose nearly $200 million Medicaid contract with the state was terminated is threatening legal action against Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration, which h...
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LSU Eunice student Alexander Lege, 19, of Gueydan, captures video footage with his phone of a routine traffic stop in Eunice on Thursday. He was arrested by another Eunice police officer on the scene minutes after this photo was taken. This most recent arrest of Lege marked his third arrest since December.
Chief says cop-watching is 'borderline terroism'
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Eunice Police Chief Ronald Dies said in a recent interview posted on YouTube that the alleged actions of “Cop Watcher” Alexander Lege were “borderl...
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Commission will re-name WMA for Dick Yancey
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission adopted a resolution on May 2 to rename the Red River-Three Rivers Wildlife Management Area in honor of distinguished conservationist Richard K. Yanc...
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Hank Brodt, left; St. Edmund Catholic High School Principal Sister Joel; Rabbi Arnie Task of Alexandria and students following Brodt's talk last week.
He talks for 6 million Holocaust victims who can't
Sixty-eight years ago Monday -- on May 6, 1945 -- Jew No. 12891 took back his name. Hank Brodt had survived five Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust and was free again. Sixty years later, B...
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Unlicensed teen's car leaves I-10, hits trees, passenger killed
GONZALES – A car driven by an unlicensed 16-year-old Baton Rouge boy ran off I-10 and hit several trees in the median, killing a rear seat passenger. State police said the accident happened Saturda...
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