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NO company to pay nearly $60K in OT back wages

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:58:04 -0400

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - A construction services employment agency has agreed to pay more than 100 workers nearly $60,000 in back wages after an investigation by the federal labor department.

New Alabama Medicaid districts unveiled

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:58:15 -0400

MONTGOMERY, Alabama - Alabama Medicaid officials have divided the state into five districts under a new care management plan that's supposed to streamline the system.

Science camp experiment burns 4 to hospital

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:55:09 -0400

COVINGTON, Louisiana - Two boys were seriously burned and a teacher and a third boy suffered minor burns when a science camp experiment to make "black snake" fireworks got out of control, setting fire to at least one boy's clothes, said Covington Fire Chief Richard Badon.

Constitutional limits on oil spill money fails

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:43:27 -0400

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - Attempts to limit Gulf Coast oil spill penalty money to coastal restoration in the Louisiana Constitution failed to gain legislative passage for a second year, while disagreements continue over just how tightly the dollars should be restricted.

Gov. Jindal begins Louisiana statewide tour

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:52:43 -0400

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - Gov. Bobby Jindal says he plans to visit all 64 Louisiana parishes in the coming months, as part of a statewide tour.

Exhibit looks at early Louisiana 'Pipe Dreams'

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:57:00 -0400

NEW ORLEANS - In the early 1700s, France sent thousands of colonists and slaves to Louisiana in the belief that tobacco would refill a treasury drained by wars. That period of envisioning the state as a promised land is the focus of "Pipe Dreams," an exhibit opening Tuesday and running through Sept. 15 at the Historic New Orleans Collection.

Man wanted in Lake Charles death added to FBI list

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:57:58 -0400

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana - The FBI has added a man wanted for a 2008 rape and murder in Lake Charles to its Ten Most Wanted list.

Lafayette horse farm up for lease

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:55:57 -0400

LAFAYETTE, LA. - The Lafayette City-Parish Council is expected to consider leasing the former University of Louisiana at Lafayette Horse Farm to a nonprofit foundation that would be responsible for fundraising, planning and developing the property into a public park.

Anonymous donation spruces up The Farm

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:41:56 -0400

MINDEN, Louisiana - A Minden cultural nonprofit that uses agriculture and the arts has new raised gardening beds and flowerbeds, thanks to $11,000 and a day of work from an anonymous company.

Lou Gehrig's disease clinic at LSU in New Orleans

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:02:31 -0400

NEW ORLEANS - The Muscular Dystrophy Association has designated the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine as Louisiana's first specialized MDA clinic for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

New Basin bass rule effective June 20

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:23:50 -0400

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - New regulations for the tens of thousands of bass fishermen who take to the Atchafalaya Basin and surrounding waters will be in place later this month after Thursday's Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission voted to change more than 20 years of regulations.

GSU establishes faculty, staff retiree association

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:32:13 -0400

GRAMBLING, Louisiana - Grambling State University produces not only undergraduate and graduate students but also a large group of retirees.

Wisner woman dies in Franklin Parish crash

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:25:55 -0400

WINNSBORO, Louisiana - State police say a 25-year-old Wisner woman was killed in a car crash in Franklin Parish.

Kansas company sues over fireworks fees

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:17:18 -0400

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - A Kansas company that sells fireworks in Louisiana is asking a state judge to strike down a law that imposes higher permit fees and penalties on nonresident fireworks retailers than on local sellers.

7 selected for Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:13:35 -0400

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - Seven people, including West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Mike Cazes and former judge and U.S. Attorney L.J. Hymel, will be inducted July 12 into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame.

Federal charges filed alleged bank fraud scheme

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:11:52 -0400

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - Two Baton Rouge businessmen are charged with bank fraud in what federal prosecutors say involved $368,469 in loans they obtained for construction of a fitness center that did not open.

Hearing starts Monday in 1995 police killing

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:08:08 -0400

NEW ORLEANS - A death row inmate is asking for a new trial on charges that he helped a New Orleans policewoman rob and kill three people at a restaurant where she worked off-duty.

Child dies in grandparents' pool

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:47:54 -0400

CARENCRO, Louisiana - Lafayette Parish sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of a 3-year-old boy found in his grandparents' swimming pool.

Port Allen's budget faces uncertain future

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:14:15 -0400

PORT ALLEN, Louisiana - It's doubtful Mayor Demetric Slaughter's $9.7 million proposed spending plan for the 2013-14 fiscal year will gain the approval it needs from the Port Allen City Council by July 1.

Weather forces soybean delays in the Miss.-La.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:01:10 -0400

NATCHEZ, Mississippi - Heavy rains in early April delayed soybean planting in Mississippi and Louisiana.

Teen killed in ATV-pickup crash

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:59:07 -0400

EUNICE, Louisiana - State police are investigating a fatal crash involving a Honda four-wheeler and a pickup in Evangeline Parish.

School Board president arrested in hit and run

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:05:37 -0400

GREENSBURG, LA. - State police have arrested the president of the Livingston Parish School Board after a 21-year-old Mississippi man was killed in a hit-and-run in St. Helena Parish.

Ascension Parish solicits input on sewer plan

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:40:23 -0400

GONZALES, Louisiana - Ascension Parish officials hope to give information out and get some in return during a pair of public meetings this week regarding a proposed parish-wide sewer project.

AgCenter offers agritourism workshop

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:09:36 -0400

ZWOLLE, Louisiana - The LSU AgCenter is offering a workshop for landowners interested in starting an outdoor recreational business.

Sessions focus on Civil War in Lafourche

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:09:23 -0400

LOCKPORT, Louisiana - The Lockport Public Library is planning a series of discussions focusing on the Civil War in Lafourche Parish.