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1 hr ago | The Advocate

Louisiana educators, students face reckoning with new standardized tests

The state's standardized exams are getting harder to fall in line with new federal standards known as the Common Core - much harder, by all accounts.

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Related Topix: Standardized Testing, Education

Wed Jun 19, 2013

SFGate

6 arrested in La. in explosives investigation

This booking photo released by the Webster Parish Sheriffs Office shows Explo Systems President David Fincher of Burns, Tenn., Wednesday, June 19, 2013.

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Related Topix: Minden, LA, Explosion, Doyline, LA, Bossier City, LA

Uptown Messenger

Thief with a thing for detergent sought after multiple shopliftings, police say

A shoplifter who has emptied the shelves of a South Claiborne convenience store of laundry detergent on several occasions has been captured on surveillance camera, police say, and investigators are now seeking the public's help identifying him.

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The News-Star

Is King Cotton dead?

Cotton, which was once king in Louisiana, now occupies no more acres than grain sorghum in the state's fertile fields.

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Related Topix: Monroe, LA, Agriculture, Science

The Advocate

Baton Rouge judge strikes down parts of state's juvenile gun law

A judge on Tuesday struck down several exceptions to Louisiana's ban on juveniles possessing handguns, including a little-known provision allowing youngsters to carry handguns as long as they have written permission from a parent.

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Related Topix: Baton Rouge, LA

The Times

Louisiana leads economic recovery

Since the Great Recession, we have heard endless gloom and doom reports about the economy.

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Related Topix: Shreveport, LA

Crowley Post Signal

Acadia Assessor Petitjean achieves CLA designation

Acadia Parish Assessor James "Jimbo" Petitjean has received the "Certified Louisiana Assessor" designation from the State of Louisiana and the Louisiana Assessor's Association.

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Tue Jun 18, 2013

KPLC-TV Lake Charles

Nearly 7,000 marijuana plants found growing in Vernon field

Nearly 7,000 marijuana plants were discovered growing in a field in western Vernon Parish, according to a news release from Vernon Parish Sheriff Sam Craft.

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Daily Kos

Gov. Bobby Jindal explains what 'the left wants'

I have a serious question: Is Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal high? Because in this otherwise uninteresting op-ed bleating about how the Republican Party needs to stop introspecting so much and just start being awesome, he closes with perhaps the truest statements on what the Republican Party is about, which is fighting against an American "left" ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Bobby Jindal, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Governors, Louie Gohmert, Weather

KLFY-TV Lafayette

$3500 reward in fatal poisoning of 2 bald eagles

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries are offering $3,500 for information leading to the conviction of whoever killed the national birds.

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WSFA-TV Montgomery

Gas line explodes in Washington Parish

According to the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, the LSP/DEQ Hazmat report indicated the suspected cause of the explosion was a rupture in a 30-inch natural gas line.

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Related Topix: Explosion, Agriculture, Science

KBTX-TV Bryan

Gas Explosion Reported in Washington Parish, Louisiana

An explosion at a gas line or gas plant about 80 miles north of New Orleans knocked out power to about 10,000 customers on Tuesday, according to local reports.

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Reuters

UPDATE 1-Gas explosion reported in Washington Parish, Louisiana

An explosion at a gas line or gas plant about 80 miles north of New Orleans knocked out power to about 10,000 customers on Tuesday, according to local reports.

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The Town Talk

Teaching method infuses gestures and movement into learning

About 900 teachers are honing their skills this week at a three-day conference at Louisiana College.

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Related Topix: Louisiana College

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Booker Rising

Star Parker: "Traditional Values Will Attract More Blacks To The Republican Party"

Asserts the conservative Republican commentator in D.C .: "Anyone who doubts that the Republican Party can attract black voters need only look south to Louisiana.

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Related Topix: US News

WGNO-TV New Orleans

Louisiana seafood takes center stage at Aspen International Food & Wine Classic

Chef Andrew Zimmern even goes so far as to call the Aspen Food and Wine Classic, "The best food weekend of the year!" "It's really become sort of the showcase internationally for all the best food and wine," according to Top Chef judge Gail Simmons.

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Related Topix: Seafood, Life, Food

The Times

Exhibit looks at early Louisiana 'Pipe Dreams'

A French snuff grater, made of boxwood and iron, between 1675 and 1725, which will be featured in the exhibit 'Pipe Dreams,' opening Tuesday and running through Sept.

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Related Topix: New Orleans, LA

Banner-Tribune

Remembering Mary Alice

Pictured is one of the first editions of the very first Clovis Crawfish book. There have been countless revisions over the years.

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Related Topix: Eunice, LA, Lafayette, LA, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

NewsOK.com

7 selected for Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame

The Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum Foundation will induct seven people into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame in ceremonies July 12 at the prison museum and in Baton Rouge.

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Related Topix: Prison, State Prisons, Louisiana State Penitentiary

JD Journal

FINRA Regional Director Resigns as Prior Bingo Fraud Indictment Revealed

Last week, Mitchell C. Atkins, who was a regional director and head of FINRA's District 7, in Boca Raton, Florida, resigned after evidence about him surfaced about a 1993 indictment in Louisiana "for felony theft and charitable bingo fraud."

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