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Louisiana earns highest ranking ever in CEO survey of of state business climates
Up 33 spots since 2009, La. ranks 11th in Chief Executive’s Best & Worst States for Business
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Car runs off I-49, hits trees, burns, driver dies
FOREST HILL – A Pineville woman was killed when her car ran off I-49 east of here. has died in a Rapides Parish traffic accident. State police said Tuesday morning’s accident happened south of Loui...
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Louisiana House tries to out-dunk Senate in charity basketball game May 8
Some may be past their prime, but Louisiana legislators will lace their sneakers, stretch some muscles, and reach way back to pull out some moves on the court to show which arm of the legislature d...
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State climbs higher in CEO biz climate rankings
BATON ROUGE — Chief Executive said Tuesday that CEOs nationwide rank Louisiana No. 11 in the U.S., the state’s highest position ever, in the magazine’s annual ranking of Best & Worst States for B...
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FEMA awards more than $3 million to St. John Parish School damaged in Hurricane Isaac
The St. John Parish School Board will receive two grants totaling more than $3 million to repair damages to East St. John High School caused by Hurricane Isaac, the Federal Emergency Management Age...
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Jindal, Boise Inc. announce $111M investment at DeRidder Paper Mill
DERIDDER--Governor Bobby Jindal and Boise Inc. Vice President of Manufacturing Mark Haser announced May 2 the company will invest $111 million to upgrade a major paper machine at Boise’s DeRidder P...
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LSU Eunice student Alexander Lege, 19, of Gueydan, captures video footage with his phone of a routine traffic stop in Eunice on Thursday. He was arrested by another Eunice police officer on the scene minutes after this photo was taken. This most recent arrest of Lege marked his third arrest since December.
Chief says cop-watching is 'borderline terroism'
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Eunice Police Chief Ronald Dies said in a recent interview posted on YouTube that the alleged actions of “Cop Watcher” Alexander Lege were “borderl...
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Commission will re-name WMA for Dick Yancey
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission adopted a resolution on May 2 to rename the Red River-Three Rivers Wildlife Management Area in honor of distinguished conservationist Richard K. Yanc...
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Hank Brodt, left; St. Edmund Catholic High School Principal Sister Joel; Rabbi Arnie Task of Alexandria and students following Brodt's talk last week.
He talks for 6 million Holocaust victims who can't
Sixty-eight years ago Monday -- on May 6, 1945 -- Jew No. 12891 took back his name. Hank Brodt had survived five Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust and was free again. Sixty years later, B...
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Unlicensed teen's car leaves I-10, hits trees, passenger killed
GONZALES – A car driven by an unlicensed 16-year-old Baton Rouge boy ran off I-10 and hit several trees in the median, killing a rear seat passenger. State police said the accident happened Saturda...
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Former Monroe City Councilman Robert "Red" Stevens pleads guilty
SHREVEPORT--U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Robert E. “Red” Stevens, 61, former elected member of the City Council of Monroe, pleaded guilty last week to accepting cash bribe payme...
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Bear kills calf in West Carroll
EPPS – Wildlife and Fisheries personnel are trying to trap a bear that killed a calf in a pasture near here last week. LDWF Wildlife Division staff responded to the reported incident, performing a ...
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