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Direct seafood marketing program expanding
ABBEVILLE (AP) — A boat-to-table seafood marketing project is expanding to two areas in southeast Louisiana, with plans for the southwest. Boat captains post arrival times and their catch on the In...
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High court rejects Jefferson’s appeal WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is leaving in place the corruption conviction of a former Louisiana congressman who hid money from bribes in his freezer. The j...
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Judge orders new inquiry into Katrina case leaks
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Allegations of prosecutorial misconduct tainted a Justice Department inquiry into the source of leaked information about the probe of deadly police shootings on a New Orleans bri...
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No clear opinion on fiscal cliff in website poll
There was no majority on the stmarynow.com website poll that asked, “Do you think Republicans and Democrats will make a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff?” The response was 39 percent “No,” 35 percent...
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No bite to Louisiana food safety inspections
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana’s regulators of food safety fail to ensure restaurants and other retail food establishments are complying with health standards and allow violators of safety requiremen...
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Whooping crane activity tracked
NEW ORLEANS — Whooping cranes introduced to the wild in southwestern Louisiana are the focus of intense research aimed at finding out where they go, what they eat and what else they do with their t...
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Camp owner says pay due for evacuation from sinkhole site
BAYOU CORNE (AP) — The sugar and non-dairy creamer for Harley Brown’s coffee was rock hard Friday inside his chilly camp on Bayou Corne.
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Port Fourchon beach projects set to end in spring PORT FOURCHON — A multimillion dollar effort to restore Port Fourchon’s beach, dune and marsh is set for completion this spring. Lafourche Parish ...
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Analysis: Another year, another budget shortfall
BATON ROUGE, La. — In case Louisiana lawmakers needed a little sobering news to go with their Thanksgiving meals, their pre-holiday budget meeting gave them a snapshot of next year’s financial prob...
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Worker burned in Gulf oil platform fire dies
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One of the men critically burned in an offshore oil platform fire has died in a Baton Rouge hospital, the Philippine ambassador said Friday. Avelino Tajonera, 49, a welder from D...
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Ted Williams, left, and Chuck Hustmyre, right, practice longsword drills on the LSU Parade Ground. The long sword leisure class met weekly this fall as part of LSU’s Leisure Class offerings. LSU Manship News Service/Catherine Threlkeld
LSU leisure class teaches sword-fighting techniques
BATON ROUGE — For an hour and a half on Tuesday nights in September and October, combatants wielding medieval long sword replicas engage in hand-to-hand combat, circling each other slowly, waiting ...
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Voucher lawsuit scheduled for hearing
BATON ROUGE, La. — A Baton Rouge judge will hear arguments next week over whether Gov. Bobby Jindal’s statewide voucher program and other sweeping education changes were properly created by lawmake...
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