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• Cameras coming to Baton Rouge school buses

  December 21, 2012 8:53 AM

  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board has agreed to add cameras to 50 buses at a time until they are on all 650 of the school system's buses. Currently, there are 30 school buses with cameras. The Advocate reports the board voted Thursday 10-0... more »

• Evangeline School Unitary Status Coming

  December 15, 2011 8:20 AM

  VILLIE PLATTE, La. (AP) - The 42-year-old Evangeline Parish school desegregation case may be coming to an end in 2012. Superintendent Toni Hamlin says that she, school board attorney Robert Hammonds, Franz Marshal of the U.S. Justice Department and Marion Over White, an attorney for the original plaintiff, had a... more »

• Governor: Barge plant coming to Madison Parish

  August 29, 2011 9:55 AM

  TALLULAH, La. (AP) - Gov. Bobby Jindal tells The News-Star St. John Enterprises, a Louisiana barge manufacturer, will open a facility at the Madison Parish Port that will eventually employ more than 400 people. Jindal will make the official announcement at the port Monday, when he will also present details... more »

• Interviews Completed: Pineville Chief Decision Coming in Oct.

  September 20, 2010 8:01 AM

  PINEVILLE, La. (AP) - Pineville Mayor Clarence Fields has finished initial interviews with all seven candidates to become the city's next chief of police. Fields says that he completed all of the interviews on Thursday and will spend this week evaluating the candidates before likely narrowing down the field to... more »

• $1.8 Billion Coming for Orleans Schools

  August 25, 2010 8:22 PM

  NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Sen. Mary Landrieu says she's been informed by President Barack Obama's administration that New Orleans schools are about to get $1.8 billion in federal money to cover damages from Hurricane Katrina. Landrieu said in a news release Wednesday that the announcement will be made by the... more »

• US Commerce Secretary Coming to Louisiana

  August 16, 2010 5:32 AM

  NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke will be in Louisiana today, and seafood's on his agenda and menu. After a late-morning tour of a shrimp processing plant in Lafitte, about 30 miles from New Orleans, he will have lunch with Gulf fishermen at a seafood restaurant... more »

• Oil Spill "Finally Close To Coming To An End"

  August 4, 2010 11:27 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is applauding headway that has been made to stop the nation's worst oil spill, saying the Gulf of Mexico operation is "finally close to coming to an end." He said people's lives "have been turned upside down" as a result of the April 20... more »

• Seepage detected two miles from BP's oil cap is coming from another well.

  July 20, 2010 4:17 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government's oil spill chief says seepage detected two miles from BP's oil cap is coming from another well. There are two wells within two miles of BP's blowout, one that has been abandoned and another that is not in production. There around 27,000 abandoned wells... more »

• Obama Coming Back To The Gulf Region

  July 13, 2010 4:15 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says President Barack Obama plans to visit the Gulf region again soon as efforts to contain a devastating oil spill continue. Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said Obama will make the trip "in the not too distant future." The president has made four visits... more »

• Birds Migrating Toward The Gulf Of Mexico In Coming Months

  June 29, 2010 11:32 AM

  ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) - The Gulf of Mexico oil spill prompts a new push to quickly increase wetlands habitat for birds migrating toward the Gulf of Mexico. "More than 50 million migratory birds traveling south in coming months will instinctively head toward the marshes and coastlands of the northern Gulf... more »

• Idol is Coming to The Big Easy

  June 21, 2010 9:10 PM

  Once again, aspiring singers will have the incredible opportunity to audition in cities across the country to become the next American Idol as the No. 1 show on television begins auditions for its milestone 10th season on Saturday, July 17 in Nashville, TN. The search for the next singing superstar... more »

• Obama Coming To Gulf Coast Friday

  May 25, 2010 3:30 PM

  On Friday morning, May 28, President Barack Obama will travel from Chicago to the Louisiana Gulf Coast to assess the latest efforts to counter the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The Administration has mobilized one of the largest responses to a catastrophic event in history, with more than 1,200 vessels... more »

• Oyster Harvester Can Smell Oil Coming

  April 29, 2010 4:47 PM

  EMPIRE, La. (AP) - A man whose family has been harvesting oysters on the Louisiana coast for three generations says he can smell the oil coming. Mitch Jurisich spent part of today hauling in oysters -- stopping to eat some -- because it might be the last chance to do... more »