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• La. offers workshops on wetland management

  May 20, 2013 10:06 AM

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• SLU offers business counseling services

  April 22, 2013 8:13 AM

  HAMMOND, La. (AP) - The Louisiana Small Business Development Center at Southeastern Louisiana University is offering counseling sessions for businesses in the Florida Parishes. The free and confidential, one-on-one meetings are available by appointment only. The SBDC typically provides assistance in areas such as development of business plans, advertising and... more »

• Agency offers help to pay utility bills

  February 4, 2013 9:09 AM

  FRANKLINTON, La. (AP) - The Quad Area Community Action Agency is making funding available to help low-income residents of Washington Parish pay their utility bills. The Daily News reports the agency is setting up appointments with residents, who must meet several requirements to be eligible for the program. More details... more »

• Job placement firm offers free help to job seekers

  December 27, 2012 6:42 AM

  CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago-based job placement firm is offering job hunters free professional help heading into the new year. Challenger, Gray and Christmas Executive Vice President Rick Cobb says his firm's mission is to reduce the time it takes for people out of a job "to get to their... more »

• Gun group offers training for Utah teachers

  December 27, 2012 6:36 AM

  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Classroom teachers could stop school shootings by carrying concealed weapons, say gun-rights advocates who plan to offer the required training Thursday for 200 Utah teachers. The Utah Shooting Sports Council said it would waive its $50 fee for concealed-weapons training for the teachers. Instruction featuring... more »

• LDWF offers online renewal for commercial licenses

  December 26, 2012 8:52 AM

  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says commercial licenses can now be renewed online. People who have commercial licenses from the department can renew them at www.wlf.louisiana.gov/licenses . Until now, commercial licenses could be renewed only by mail or in person at the department's... more »

• La insurance dept offers online rate comparisons

  December 18, 2012 7:42 AM

  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says his department's new online system will make it easier for Louisiana residents to shop for the best insurance rates in their cities. You can't get quotes for your house and car. The auto insurance guide compares quotes for a 2004,... more »

• Delta CC offers 1st winter session: 15 day courses

  November 26, 2012 3:56 AM

  MONROE, La. (AP) - Louisiana Delta Community College is offering its first winter session for students who want to take a three-credit course over the holidays. It's offering 18 intensive classes from an academic skills seminar to human anatomy and physiology. Five classes are online. The News-Star reports that registration... more »

• SLU offers tax prep workshop

  October 15, 2012 9:19 AM

  HAMMOND, La. (AP) - The Louisiana Small Business Development Center at Southeastern Louisiana University is offering a seminar for tax preparers, certified public accountants and others engaged in payroll tax documentation. The seminar is scheduled Friday from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the University Center. Cost to attend is $20. The... more »

• Delgado offers registration help to vets

  October 15, 2012 9:17 AM

  NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Delgado Community College is offering registration assistance for the spring semester to students who are military veterans and their dependents. Representatives of the college's academic divisions and student services departments will be on hand this week at two sessions: - Tuesday, 2-4 p.m., Delgado West Bank... more »

• 'Little Prince' discovery offers new insight

  May 3, 2012 10:38 AM

  PARIS (AP) - The only known draft pages of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic children's book "The Little Prince" are on display at a Paris auction house, ahead of their sale this month. The two fragile handwritten sheets, brimming with original musings and even a new character, were discovered two months... more »

• LSU offers different idea of college merger

  March 8, 2012 9:51 AM

  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - LSU System President John Lombardi is offering a counter-proposal to legislation that would merge LSU's Shreveport campus into Louisiana Tech University and the University of Louisiana System. Instead, Lombardi wants to move Louisiana Tech into the LSU System. Lombardi pitched the idea Wednesday in Shreveport.... more »

• NSU offers homeland security degree

  March 5, 2012 6:17 AM

  NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) - Northwestern State University is offering the state's first master's degree in homeland security starting this summer. It's an expansion of an adult education course currently offered that has a "concentration" in homeland security. Joe Morris, head of the Department of Criminal Justice, History and Social Sciences,... more »

• Rapides Parish offers amnesty program

  March 1, 2012 8:38 AM

  ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) - The 9th Judicial District will offer an amnesty program next week for defendants to pay their fines and court costs in order to avoid a contempt of court arrest for nonpayment. The Town Talk reports the district court judges, Rapides Parish District Attorney James Downs, Clerk... more »

• Family of New Iberia Woman Offers $10,000 to Find Woman's Killer

  July 3, 2010 5:01 PM

  NEW IBERIA, La. (AP) - The family of a New Iberia woman strangled two years ago is offering a $10,000 reward for tips leading to the conviction of her killer. Buddy Blanchard, of Bakersfield, Calif., says someone has to know something about who killed his sister, Judy Blanchard Landry. Another... more »

• Vitter Offers Amendments To Reconciliation Bill

  March 24, 2010 6:42 PM

  From Senator Vitter's Office: U.S. Sen. David Vitter today offered the following amendments to the Senate's health care reconciliation bill. The first of several amendments offered by Vitter would provide for comprehensive prescription drug reform and allow for the reimportation of prescription medicines. "If we are truly serious about health... more »

• Miles Perret Cancer Services Offers Support For Families

  February 26, 2010 7:21 PM

  Every year your chances of knowing and loving someone with cancer rise. Miles Perret Cancer Services hosted a wellness training today at city club in Lafayette. The goal is to show patients, family, and friends that there is support and hope for living a healthy and vital life even... more »