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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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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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1 man killed in head-on crash DUSON — State police say a 43-year-old Duson man was killed over the weekend in a two-vehicle crash in Lafayette Parish. The accident happened Saturday on La. 724. Tr...
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Steady rain greets Jazz Fest as 1st weekend closes
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A steady, sometimes heavy rain pelted fans Sunday at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, but the music flowed on. A soaked Dave Matthews and his band played through a str...
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Researchers suspect BP oil spill affected insect life
NEW YORK (AP) — They sweep. They swab. They sterilize. And still the germs persist. In U.S. hospitals, an estimated 1 in 20 patients pick up infections they didn’t have when they arrived, some caus...
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Steep cuts are part of budget maneuvering
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana House leaders have devised a budget-cutting plan that would force steep cuts to health care and colleges, but only as a maneuver to get next year’s more than $24 billion spe...
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