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DOTD Causeway open in both directions
The southbound Causeway then opened from about 4:15 p.m. to about 5 p.m before officials said they needed to close the southbound lanes again in order to pull the car out of the ...
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Jodi Arias jurors deadlock New jury to be chosen
An Arizona jury Thursday said it was unable to reach a unanimous agreement and would be unable to decide what penalty Jodi Arias should receive for killing her ...
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Copper thieves concern Bayou St. John area residents
On Wednesday a neighbor caught a thief cutting copper wiring from a utility pole and called police. A quick look down the street indicates it's not the first time it's ...
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Intersection of Louisiana Avenue and Hwy. 7 to be rebuilt in St. Louis Park
The busy intersection of Louisiana Avenue and Hwy. 7 will become an interchange with on- and off-ramps. The city hopes it will spur ...
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Boy Scouts to allow gay youths to join
Delegates to the annual meeting of the Boy Scouts of America made a monumental statement Thursday, voting to allow openly gay youths to join ...
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Louisiana Passes Measure To Criminalize Reporting On Gun Owners
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons) In the latest move by Louisiana to plow ahead with looser gun laws, the state legislature passed a measure that would criminalize journalists for publishing information about gun owners. ...
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Judge wont let Orleans out of police reform pact
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A federal judge has refused to let the city of New Orleans out of a potentially expensive agreement to reform its troubled police ...
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Golden Gate Petroleum to production test Louisiana oil well
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Golden Gate Petroleum (ASX: GGP) will soon participate in production testing of the Hensarling-1 well in the Napoleonville Project, Louisiana. A workover rig is scheduled to arrive today to run the completion operation and commence production testing from the Cris R III sands, which has 49 feet of net oil pay.Another 31 feet of net pay was intersected in ...
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Obama U.S. will keep deploying drones
Drone strikes are a necessary evil, but one that must be used with more temperance as the United States' security situation evolves, President Barack Obama said in a counterterrorism speech ...
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JPSO Former Coca-Cola employee stole nearly $9000 from vending machines
Police say a Coca-Cola supervisor reported severalCoca-Cola vending machines at various locations in Jefferson Parish continually coming up short of money during inventory in September ...
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Senate rejects move to stop Common Core standards
The Louisiana Senate has killed a resolution that sought to keep the state from using a set of uniform national standards for public school testing, called Common Core ...
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Woman accused of wielding garden gnome in domestic assault
Florida police said a woman accused of domestic battery allegedly used a garden gnome decked out in New Orleans Saints gear to strike a man in the head. Gulfport police said Lisa Buckley, 47, arrived home around 4:17 p.m. Sunday "and began yelling at the victim" to start an argument that soon turned physical, the Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times reported Thursday. Buckley "threw items all ...
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NOAA 2013 hurricane season to be ‘active’ or ‘extremely active’
The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1st to November 30th. The National Weather Service defines a hurricane as "an intense tropical weather system ...
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Slideshow Termite swarms surrounded the New Orleans area Wednesday night
WDSU anchor Scott Walker proclaimed a termite-apocalypse on Twitter Wednesday night, and a few viewers sent him some photos of the swarms around ...
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Obama says US at crossroads in terror fight
President Barack Obama in a major counterterrorism speech Thursday defended the American drone program, saying that despite the controversies around it, the strikes are legal and save ...
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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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