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Under pressure from House conservatives opposed to comprehensive immigration reform, House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday, "I don't see any way of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that doesn't have majority support of Republicans." Until ...
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BESE to consider funds for Course Choice program
program BATON ROUGE - The state education board is being asked to allocate $2 million for a pilot program to expand online high school course offerings to public school students. The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education considers Tuesday the funding plan for the "Course Choice" program to begin in the 2013-14 school year. Initial plans were to finance the program through the ...
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Officials disclose thwarted terror plots
Plots to bomb the New York subway system and the New York Stock Exchange were among more than 50 stopped by secret surveillance programs, the director of the National Security Agency and other officials disclosed ...
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Livingston Parish girl in national Braille contest finals
Chloe Ashford won a regional contest at the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired, in the category for students in grades 7-9. She will compete in the "junior varsity" division against 11 other ...
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FBI Surveillance programs foiled NY terror plots
An FBI official said Tuesday that secret surveillance programs helped thwart separate terrorist plots to bomb the New York subway system and the New York Stock Exchange by linking known suspects in Pakistan and Yemen to contacts in the United ...
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Explosion on Florida Gas Pipeline in Louisiana - company
NEW YORK, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:05am EDT NEW YORK, June 18 (Reuters) - Energy Transfer Partners LP said an explosion occurred on its Florida Gas Transmission pipeline in Washington County in Louisiana on Tuesday, shutting a section of the line. No injuries were reported, a company spokeswoman said. Natural gas was rerouted to customers along other sections of the Florida Gas ...
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Black Louisiana senator flees Democratic party Free at last
View results Louisiana State Sen. Elbert Guillory said in a video message delivered to constituents - and particularly, his fellow black voters - that he’s finally come to his senses and realized the Democratic Party disguises an all-consuming quest for control as concern and aid for minorities.The senator announced his defection from the Democratic Party for the Republican Party a few ...
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OSHA Investigating Second Chemical Plant Explosion In Louisiana
another chemical plant exploded in the state , killing one person and injuring seven. The CF Industries Holdings plant in Donaldsonville manufactures nitrogen, and the company is the largest producer of nitrogen in the country. This is the worst accident at the plant in 13 years. The explosion occurred in a section of the plant that had been shut down for maintenance when workers are thought to ...
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Gas line explodes in Washington Parish Thousands without power
View images from the scene Some structures may have been damaged in the blast. Law enforcement and Hazmat crews were at the scene. The fire was out about 7 a.m. and nearly 10,000 were without power in the Parish, officials said. Some residents were asked to evacuate the area. No further information was immediately available. Stay with WDSU.com and WDSU News for more information as it ...
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UPDATE 1-Gas explosion reported in Washington Parish Louisiana
Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:49am EDT (Adds pipeline details) June 18 (Reuters) - An explosion at a gas line or gas plant about 80 miles north of New Orleans knocked out power to about 10,000 customers on Tuesday, according to local reports. The explosion occurred in the town of Enon, according to the reports. The sheriff's office in Washington Parish said its officers and other first responders were ...
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Hope in Afghanistan amid handover diplomacy
Afghan forces formally took over security responsibilities for their violence-plagued country from NATO-led troops on Tuesday, marking a key transition in the long and costly war. President Hamid Karzai also announced that a government group dedicated to Afghan peace and reconciliation will go to the Gulf state of Qatar and participate in talks with the Taliban militant group -- long the ...
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Huge explosion reported in New Orleans
An online article ('Protestant-Catholic gap narrows as census results revealed', posted December 11, 2012) reported on the publication of data from the 2011 Census by the Northern Ireland Statistics Agency and stated that the percentage of Protestants and Catholics in the Northern Ireland population stood at 48% and 45% ...
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2nd Victim Dies After Blast at Geismar Louisiana Chemical Plant
An explosion and fire at a Louisiana chemical plant claimed a second victim on June 14 as federal authorities were piecing together the cause of the blast that injured dozens more. Scott Thrower, 47, of St. Amant, died at Baton Rouge General Hospital’s burn center, said State Police Capt. Doug Cain. According to company officials, Thrower was an operations supervisor and had worked for ...
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UPI Sports Calendar for Tuesday June 18
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Jefferson Co. creates rules to ease neighbors body farm concerns
Starting this fall, there will be a new body farm in East Tennessee and it's not on UT's campus. Monday night, the Jefferson County Commission put the final seal of approval on cadaver research facilities in their county. After months of complaints from neighbors about the possibility of a body farm for Carson Newman University, there was no hesitation from county commissioners at ...
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US waiting seeing with Irans new chief
The U.S. State Department said Monday it wasn't surprised that Iran's newly elected president, Hassan Rouhani, said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should stay in power until ...
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US releases names of Guantanamo indefinite detainees
The names of dozens of detainees held at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were released for the first time on Monday after a newspaper sued the federal government for the ...
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NOPD looking for missing 62-year-old man
Passengers on a United Airlines flight on Monday helped subdue a man who they said stood up and screamed about the CIA, national security leaks and poison. The disruption occurred during Flight 116 from Hong Kong that eventually landed safely at its ...
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Louisianas Cancer Alley may need a new nickname after two fatal blasts
Not that there should be tighter oversight of the Louisiana chemical industry or anything, but there were fatal blasts at two different Louisiana chemical plants last week. Thursday's explosion at the Williams Olefin ...
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Louisiana's recovery might be brought to its knees
The six-month moratorium suspending all exploratory oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is another blow to an economy already reeling and could potentially undermine the state for years to come.
There can be no one left in Louisiana who has not heard about the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the oil spill that has resulted from the collapse of the rig, which killed eleven people in the process and is now threatening the livelihoods of countless communities along the state’s coast. Read more
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