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Friday Jul 3 | News-Star

Lawmakers add projects to bill

BATON ROUGE - While approving funding that reduced cuts to higher education and health care, state lawmakers also included $34 million to fund select projects in their districts.

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

GlobeNewswire

The Book of Genesis Retold -- Immerse in a Collection of Stories From ...

Many people consider the Bible dry or difficult reading, and for this reason, it is often taken for granted.

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

News-Star

Act now for the future

Louisiana lawmakers already are warning us that deeper state budget cuts are ahead.

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

News-Star

Even tougher budget times ahead, Fannin says

Northeastern Louisiana's most powerful legislators, committee chairs who drive much of the agenda in the state House and Senate, said the cuts made to balance the upcoming budget were mere nicks compared to what could come during the next two years.

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Tue Jun 16, 2009

KNOE-TV Monroe

News from the Louisiana Legislature

An attempt to override Governor Bobby Jindal's rejection of $98 million in federal stimulus money to expand unemployment benefits remains stalled in the Senate Finance Committee, which delayed discussion of the proposal yesterday.

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Fri Jun 12, 2009

KSLA-TV Shreveport

LA House gives budget bill final passage

In a surprising twist, the Louisiana House gave final legislative passage Thursday to a $28 billion budget bill that ties health care and higher education to uncertain financing and assures cleanup measures will be required to fix the spending plan.

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Mon Jun 08, 2009

Times-Picayune

Jarvis DeBerry: Louisiana 'career diploma' bill is a cynical sham

"In the abundance of water," the reggae legend Bob Marley sang, "the fool is thirsty." Imagine, then, the consequences of an abundance of fools.

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Fri Jun 05, 2009

Times-Picayune

Senate panel approves new high school diploma with easier standards

Ignoring opposition from a former governor and his state school board member son, a Senate committee Thursday moved Louisiana one step closer to a high school curriculum overhaul that would allow a less academically rigorous diploma track for students who never pass the LEAP test in the eighth grade.

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Fri May 15, 2009

News-Star

Budget pleases few area lawmakers

BATON ROUGE - Most northeastern Louisiana state representatives voted for the $27 billion budget approved by the House Thursday, but few liked it.

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Sat May 09, 2009

News-Star

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Thu May 07, 2009

KTBS

Severe Thunderstorm Watch and Flash Flood Watch canceled

The Severe Thunderstorm Watch and the Flash Flood Watch for the ArkLaTex have been allowed to expire.

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Tue Apr 28, 2009

News-Star

Tiger Pipeline to host open house in Jonesboro

Tiger Pipeline Company, LLC, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, will host an open house from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight at the Jackson Parish Community Center in Jonesboro to provide information on the construction and operation of the recently announced Tiger Pipeline Project.

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Thu Apr 16, 2009

News-Star

Jonesboro hosts festival, car show

Two events have been packaged for Saturday in Jonesboro with the Jackson Parish Classic and Antique Car Club's 13th annual Car Show and the sixth annual Jonesboro Sunshine Festival.

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Wed Apr 01, 2009

KTBS

Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Winn, Bienville, and Natchitoches Parishes

EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 958 PM CDT FRI MAR 27 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN JACKSON PARISH IN NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF JONESBORO... NORTHERN WINN PARISH IN NORTH CENTRAL ...

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Mon Mar 30, 2009

News-Star

Storms bear down on area

As residents in St. Joseph and Jonesboro recover from this week's storms, more severe weather is set to strike the region Friday night.

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Sat Mar 28, 2009

News-Star

UPDATED 10:30 p.m.: Storm causes power outages across northeastern Louisiana

Winds ripped across northern Louisiana on Wednesday night, disrupting power for thousands of Entergy customers.

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Thu Mar 26, 2009

News-Star

Storm tears up Jonesboro-Hodge High School

JONESBORO - Classes were canceled Wednesday and Thursday at Jonesboro High School after a tornado struck late Tuesday evening, damaging four classrooms in the junior high building and other parts of the school.

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Tue Feb 17, 2009

News-Star

DEATHS

RUSTON - Jeanne Patterson Armstrong, a homemaker, died Sunday. Arrangements are incomplete under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home.

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Sat Feb 07, 2009

News-Star

Jonesboro man, 22, arrested for fourth DWI charge

West Monroe police early today charged a Jonesboro man with driving while intoxicated, his fourth such charge.

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Thu Feb 05, 2009

The Shreveport Times

Jonesboro coach booked on sex crimes

Jonesboro-Hodge High School boys basketball coach Roderick Bradford was charged Tuesday with two counts of carnal knowledge of a juvenile.

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