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Tuesday | Monroe News Star

ULM Hawkeye earns seven awards at state conference

The University of Louisiana at Monroe's student newspaper, the Hawkeye, won seven awards in the Louisiana Press Association's Better Student Newspaper competition.

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Fri May 25, 2012

NOLA.com

Follow the money on mass incarceration

LaSalle Corrections owns and manages the Jackson Parish Correctional Center near Jonesboro, but it needs the sheriff as much as the sheriff needs it: Only government entities can receive state inmates.

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Wed May 23, 2012

KSLA-TV Shreveport

Wife of slain Jonesboro man charged with murder

The Louisiana Department of Education will release the 2012 Spring test results Wednesday afternoon at a news conference in Jefferson Parish.

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Tue May 15, 2012

News-Star

Wife arrested in the shooting death of her husband

A Jackson Parish woman was being held Tuesday at Lincoln Parish Detention Center accused of murdering her husband Sunday evening.

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Fri May 11, 2012

The Times-Picayune

LaSalle Corrections

SCOTT THRELKELD / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE LaSalle Corrections owns and manages the Jackson Parish Correctional Center near Jonesboro, but it needs the sheriff as much as the sheriff needs it: Only government entities can receive state inmates.

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Mon May 07, 2012

KSLA-TV Shreveport

Man pleads guilty to murder in Ark. man's killing

The man wanted as a "person of interest" in connection with the killing of a Southern Arkansas University rodeo horse has been taken into custody in Florida.

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