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Paul, Jindal visit early voting states
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Republican Sen. Rand Paul opened his presidential exploration tour Friday with a splashy set of speaking engagements in Iowa designed to broaden his tea party brand into s...
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Mother’s Day gunfire wounds 19 in N.O.
NEW ORLEANS — Video released early Monday by New Orleans police shows a possible suspect in the Mother’s Day gunfire that wounded 19 people during a neighborhood parade. The grainy surveillance vid...
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Deadline to file Louisiana taxes is Wednesday
BATON ROUGE (AP) — The deadline for filing 2012 Louisiana individual income tax returns is Wednesday. The state Department of Revenue says filing can be made electronically and more information is ...
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Line still open to fishing piers
FORKED ISLAND – The four piers along La. 82, south of Forked Island, still have life for now. The Vermilion Parish Police Jury has yet to figure out what to do with them. The piers, more than 25 ye...
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Driver who avoided golf cart driven by teen girl over blood alcohol limit, dies
BOURG -- A Montegut man died Saturday afternoon from injuries he sustained in a crash on May 5 when his vehicle struck a tree limb after avoiding a golf cart in the road. State Police said their in...
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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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Louisiana news briefs
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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