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• Phelps begins moving inmates to Angola

  October 2, 2012 9:12 AM

  DEQUINCY, La. (AP) - Officials say C. Paul Phelps Correctional Center began its final month of full operations by shipping a quarter of its inmate population to Angola State Penitentiary. Warden Robert Henderson tells the American Press five buses carrying 230 prisoners departed DeQuincy Monday, headed for the maximum-security prison... more »

• Delhi moving to radio-read water meters

  April 24, 2012 10:12 AM

  DELHI, La. (AP) - The town of Delhi will issue $1.87 million in water revenue bonds to supply more than a thousand customers' water meters with automatic reading devices. Mayor Lynn Lewis tells The News-Star residents' current water meters will be replaced with a radio-read water meter which will allow... more »

• E.B.R. Sheriff's Office moving to airport

  March 15, 2012 9:02 AM

  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The East Baton Rouge Metro Council has unanimously approved a deal that will move the Sheriff's Office headquarters from its downtown location to a larger facility at Metro Airport. Sheriff Sid Gautreaux called it a win-win for everyone. Gautreaux said his staff will immediately begin... more »

• Odor control maker moving to Louisiana

  January 13, 2012 10:30 AM

  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A company that manufactures odor control products for restrooms has agreed to move its headquarters from California to Baton Rouge and its manufacturing operation from Illinois to Baton Rouge. State economic development officials say the move by West Sanitation Services Inc. will involve a $1.4... more »

• Moving Day for Lourdes

  June 25, 2011 11:24 PM

  It was a big day for healthcare in Lafayette Saturday as the new Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center officially opened for business. The new hospital opened it's doors Saturday morning, after more than two years of construction. It is the largest, single construction project to date in Lafayette... more »

• Storm Victims Begin Moving into Ala. FEMA Trailers

  May 14, 2011 11:31 PM

  PHIL CAMPBELL, Ala. (AP) - The first families began moving Saturday into new white FEMA trailers set up for tornado victims on U.S. 43 in Franklin County, near the storm-ravaged towns of Phil Campbell and Hackleburg. Democratic state Rep. Johnny Mack Morrow of Red Bay said five families were moving... more »

• Census Estimates Show More Blacks Moving to South

  February 16, 2011 7:20 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - American blacks who a century ago began leaving the South to escape segregation and racism are returning, lured by better jobs and quality of life and perhaps by something more intangible - a sense of home. The Southern U.S. region - primarily metropolitan areas such as Atlanta,... more »

• Tropical Storm Colin Moving Rapidly Across Atlantic

  August 3, 2010 11:39 AM

  MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Colin is moving rapidly across the Atlantic but early forecasts put it on a track off the U.S. Atlantic seaboard rather than into the Gulf of Mexico, where BP is working to finally plug its blown-out oil well. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says... more »

• Tropical Storm Bonnie Moving Toward Oil Spill

  July 23, 2010 7:05 AM

  NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - Tropical Storm Bonnie steamed through the central Bahamas and was approaching the Florida Keys on Friday along a course that is expected to cross over the site of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Rain and lightning raked the low-lying Turks and Caicos Islands and the... more »

• Bird Rehab Center Moving Out of Hurricane Zone

  July 5, 2010 10:07 AM

  FORT JACKSON, La. (AP) - A center where birds oiled by the BP spill have been cleaned is being moved about 100 miles inland to Hammond, La. Officials of the oil spill joint command center said the move will put the facility out of the coastal hurricane danger zone. Hammond... more »

• BP Is Moving Extremely Cautiously With Relief Well

  June 28, 2010 11:31 AM

  HOUSTON (AP) - BP says the rig drilling the relief well that's the best hope of stopping the Gulf oil spill has made it within about 20 feet horizontally of the blown-out well that's gushing crude. BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells said Monday that the rig is going to... more »

• Oil Spill: Moving on General News and Financial Services

  June 21, 2010 9:29 AM

  A summary of events on Monday, June 21, Day 62 of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with the April 20 explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean Ltd. and leased by BP PLC, which is in charge of cleanup and containment. The... more »

• Sony moving forward with 3-D & motion-control gaming

  June 15, 2010 5:05 PM

  LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sony is moving forward with 3-D and motion-control gaming. During the game maker's E3 press conference, Sony announced 20 3-D games would be released for PlayStation 3 by March 2011 while 40 games that use Move, the console's new motion-control system, would be out for the... more »

• Oil spill response command center moving to New Orleans

  June 14, 2010 3:08 PM

  NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The unified command center coordinating the response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is moving to New Orleans. Coast Guard Lt. Eric Halvorson said Monday the center will shift its operations from a Royal Dutch Shell training facility in Robert, La., to larger... more »

• La. Guard Troops Moving to Baghdad

  May 27, 2010 9:25 AM

  NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana National Guard troops will provide security in the International Zone in Baghdad. 1st Battalion, 141st Field Artillery Regiment, known as the Washington Artillery, has about 400 soldiers in Iraq. Based at Jackson Barracks in New Orleans, the unit has been providing convoy escort services from... more »