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LSU faculty, students protest against budget cuts

AP News 20 days ago

Louisiana State Univ. faculty, students protest budget cuts, say they'll damage education The latest round of college budget cuts, combined with threats of still more to come, provoked protest Tuesday from Louisiana State University faculty and students and a burgeoning movement that ...

Record yield for Louisiana rice in 2009

AP News 21 days ago

Louisiana farmers average 6,300 pounds of rice per acre _ highest in state history The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Louisiana rice farmers averaged a record 6,300 pounds of rice per acre last year. It says that's up 470 pounds per acre ...

Bankruptcy filings sharply increase in Louisiana

AP News 21 days ago

Bankruptcy filings sharply increase in Louisiana last year during recession Sharply higher numbers of people and businesses in Louisiana sought refuge from debt in federal bankruptcy court, crippled by the housing collapse, credit cards and sharply lower retail sales. According to the ...

Songwriter Bobby Charles dies at 71

Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News 25 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - American singer-songwriter Bobby Charles, who wrote hits in the 1950s and 1960s for artists such as Fats Domino and Bill Haley and the Comets, has died, entertainment paper Daily Variety reported. He was 71. Charles died at his ...

Louisiana Files Chinese Drywall Suit

consumeraffairs.com 26 days ago

State claims tax revenues have fallen because of toxic drywall The state of Louisiana is the latest to wade into the Chinese drywall battle, as Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell filed suit today in Orleans Parish against multiple entities associated with Knauf ...

Feds say Mattress World recalls 750 mattress sets

AP News 27 days ago

Mattress World voluntarily recalls 750 mattress sets deemed a fire hazard; refunds offered Mattress World recalled 750 mattress sets Wednesday, saying the bedding posed a fire hazard. The voluntary recall, announced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, includes twin, full, queen and ...

Analysis: La. figuring out where to go for jobs

AP News 29 days ago

Analysis: Louisiana targeting non-traditional areas while seeking new jobs In the hunt to bring in new jobs while playing catch-up with the rest of the South, Louisiana is looking at some economic sectors — both old and new — not normally associated ...

Peaches, apples may benefit from Deep South freeze

AP News 32 days ago

Peach, apple farmers may benefit from Deep South freeze, though a long cold snap may mean ruin The cold spell blanketing the Deep South was good news for some fruit growers, though the latest round of extreme weather has created worries for ...

State Farm asks for 19.1 percent rate hike in La.

AP News 33 days ago

Insurance company State Farm wants 19.1 percent rate hike for Louisiana homeowners State Farm Fire and Casualty Co., Louisiana's largest homeowners insurer, has asked insurance regulators for a rate increase that would average 19.1 percent statewide. The Louisiana Department of Insurance will ...

Recordings before La. helicopter crash released

AP News 33 days ago

NTSB releases helicopter pilots' final words before deadly crash that killed 8 in Louisiana A cockpit voice recorder captured a bang and a loud air noise just before a helicopter crashed in Louisiana last year, killing eight people. A transcript released Thursday ...

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