| Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:55:39 -0700
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - For the past year, the coroner's office in Louisiana's capital has had to send bodies to Lafayette or hire local pathologists to autopsy them. But now it has a local pathologist - Dr. Bruce Waimer - on contract through Louisiana Forensics. Dr. Shannon Cooper, the East Baton Rouge Parish coroner, says Waimer moved to the Baton Rouge area in July after being hired by the ...
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| Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:24:05 -0700
LAFAYETTE -- The Chitimacha Louisiana Open’s “best day of the whole year” came Wednesday as tournament officials handed out more than $140,000 to local charities and youth groups to wrap up the 2010 tournament as the organization turned its eyes to the 2011 tournament.
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| Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:28:34 -0700
Louisiana state parks and historic sites are offering a high-tech treasure hunt. It's called geocaching and involves using clues and GPS to locate a weatherproof box holding mementos or trinkets.
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| Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:14:18 -0700
Today, the U.S. Department of Education awarded a consortium of 26 states, including Louisiana, a $170 million grant to fund the development of new common assessments. The group of 26 states, the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), will collectively develop new common assessments. According to the USDOE announcement, a majority of the $350 million grant ...
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| Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:08:20 -0700
Several Louisiana officials visited the Temple-Inland paper mill in Bogalusa on Tuesday, Aug. 24.
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| Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:00:55 -0700
Louisiana Tech held off a game Grambling Tigers team, 20-6 to win the inaugural Port City Classic Saturday night.
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| Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:31:53 -0700
On a typical summer weekend in Grand Isle, Louisiana, Frank Besson's small gift shop would be filled with customers picking up a souvenir as they headed back home from a weekend visit to the beach.
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| Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:09:42 -0700
Myke Compton rushed for two first-half touchdowns and Louisiana Tech beat Grambling State 20-6 in both teams' opener on Saturday night in the inaugural Port City Classic. The Bulldogs did enough offensively to survive a scare from the heavy-underdog Tigers in the first meeting between the schools located three miles apart.
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| Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:45:22 -0700
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is headed north to help Minnesota Republicans raise money with Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a probable
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| Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:38:14 -0700
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says that 17 people have admitted catching large amounts of shrimp in the Sabine National Wildlife Refuge and selling them commercially.
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