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The Army Corps of Engineers has blocked the construction of a reservoir in the rural timber and pasture country of Washington Parish after the project ran into opposition from residents whose land would have been flooded.

A bill to set up a 17-member council to coordinate programs dealing with homelessness and create the position of a "homeless czar" in the Department of Social Services was one of four bills Gov.

The Washington Parish coroner says his office needs more money, and fast. Dr. Roger Casama says he is so far behind on bills to outside coroners that they won't accept bodies - and, though he isn't a pathologist, he had to perform an autopsy.

Danny Von Kanel, former minister of music and youth at First Baptist Church in Purvis, recently had several articles accepted for publication.

A member of a Bogalusa Ku Klux Klan group was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison after she pleaded guilty to being an accessory in the killing of an Oklahoma woman who reportedly tried to back out of a KKK initiation last year in St.

At age 12, she was making and selling her own line of jewelry. At Episcopal High, Claire Sanchez was always the kid coming up with the homecoming decorations and designing T-shirts. At 28, she's designing bright clutches and totes sold in boutiques in 17 states and online.

News and views from the Louisiana Capitol Wednesday, June 10, 2009 TOP OF THE NEWS Chinese drywall measure undergoes renovations Senate approves financing formula for school districts BGR comes out against referendum on the New Orleans Master Plan AROUND THE CAPITOL Drywall bill revised A bill designed to make it easier for people to sue the makers ...

During the first week of June in 2009, President Obama made a trip to Egypt to speak to the Muslim world.

An Abita Springs man accused of fraudulently obtaining an insurance producer's license and using it to sell insurance to a person who did not exist was arrested by detectives with State Police's Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft Unit Friday, State Police said.

State police arrested a south Louisiana preacher on fraud charges Friday in Abita Springs.

But that was a very different era. Soon, city government in the Northshore community could be shrinking.

The chairman of the Senate Education Committee on Friday asked the state's top school board for more information before his panel acts on a $3.3 billion public school aid request.

When Sylvester Stallone rumbles across the screen in "The Expendables," a lot of Bogalusa kids will recognize his ride.

The governor's office is sending some big time grants for small city and town police crime labs.

Four Chrysler dealerships in Southeast Louisiana are slated to be closed by the company as part of its restructuring plan.

The company has ordered the shutdown of Steve Bonner's Orleans Dodge-Chrysler-Jeep dealership at 13000 I-10 Service Road.

Lobbyist Tom Tate, left, representing the Louisiana Association of Educators, consults Wednesday with Rep.

A man who allegedly asked a gas station clerk how to remove blood from clothing has pleaded guilty in Louisiana to obstructing justice in connection with the killing of a Tulsa woman who had second thoughts about joining the Ku Klux Klan.

Mr. and Mrs. Marshall L. Tolliver are pleased to announce the upcoming marriage of their daughter, Keedra Renee Charlene Williams to Desean Toler, the son of Cora Gatlin, of Bogalusa, LA.

MP2 Technologies announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Weatherly Aircraft Nevada, Inc.