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La. Guardsmen train Haitian officials on emergency response
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Louisiana National Guard military engagement team logistics trainer Sgt. 1st Class Aaron Moore (right) of Alexandria, La., instructs officials from the Haitian Directorate of Civil Protection logistics division on proper emergency supplies storage management at the national emergency operations center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 30, 2013. The LANG's MET is on a ...
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St. Tammany Fire District 12 seeking 3 to join ranks
The St. Tammany Parish Fire Protection District No. 12 is looking for brave men and women to answer the call to save lives and apply for entry-level position with the ...
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Powerball surges to $600 million
The cash value is now $376.9 million. Officials said that only one jackpot in the world has been higher, which was the $640 million Mega Millions jackpot in March ...
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Surprising reasons youre eating more
Feel like you can't stop piling food on your plate? There may be some surprising reasons you're eating more, according to a Yahoo! Shine article by ...
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Louisianas Bayou Is Sinking Can $50 Billion Save It
When Terry Serigny was growing up in Leeville, Louisiana, in the 1950s, the Mississippi River delta town was also known as Orange City for its many citrus groves. Today none of those groves remain. Leeville itself is vanishing, sinking into the Gulf of ...
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IRS official Political targeting unintended
A huge increase in workload, rather than deliberate targeting, led to "foolish mistakes" and the political discrimination in the Internal Revenue Service cited by an inspector general's report, the agency's outgoing commissioner said ...
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Bond set for second suspect 4 others in Mothers Day shooting case
Bond was set for the second suspect arrested in the Mother's Day shooting and for four others who are accused of harboring a suspected gunman in the ...
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Williams Transco says gas flows to resume on Louisiana Lateral
NEW YORK | Fri May 17, 2013 12:20pm EDT NEW YORK May 17 (Reuters) - Williams Cos Inc's Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co LLC (Transco) unit on Friday said natural gas flows on its Southeast Louisiana Lateral pipeline might resume after a small leak was discovered earlier in the week. Gas at Ship Shoal 28 D in the Terrebonne Parish area offshore Louisiana may resume effective Friday, ...
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Section of US 190 to be widened in Mandeville
The state highway department is starting work on an $11.3 million project to widen a 1.2-mile stretch U.S. Highway 190 in Mandeville from two lanes to ...
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Outgoing IRS chief blames foolish mistakes
A huge increase in workload, rather than deliberate targeting, led to "foolish mistakes" and the political discrimination an inspector general's report found in the Internal Revenue Service, the outgoing commissioner of the agency said ...
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House committee questions IRS officials
The first congressional hearing on IRS targeting of conservative groups began Friday with the House Ways and Means Committee looking at what it called political ...
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Seven still missing after Texas tornadoes
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A trailer blown into a home on Lindsay Lane in Cleburne rests on a car after a tornado touch down in Cleburne, Texas May 16, 2013. REUTERS/Richard ...
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Arrests in New Orleans parade shootings hailed as progress against culture of violence
Shawn Scott, 24, a suspect in the Mother's Day parade shooting is led out of the New Orleans 5th District Police Station, Thursday, May 16, 2013 in New Orleans. Shawn and Akein Scott. two brothers with a history of drug arrests and suspected ties to a neighborhood gang each face 20 counts of attempted second-degree murder in a shooting spree that brought a sudden bloody end to a ...
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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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