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Sunday, November 22, 2009
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WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Saturday night to advance its epic health-care bill for debate with a critical vote being cast by U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu.
The Louisiana Democrat was one of the last two Democratic holdouts on allowing the measure to move forward onto the Senate floor where it is expected to be passionately debated through the end of the year. The final vote was 60-39 with all Democrats and two independents giving the necessary votes to allow the motion to proceed.
In the six years since East Baton Rouge Parish started fracturing into multiple school systems, two of the new ones, Zachary and Central, quickly moved into the top levels of state rankings, becoming engines for growth in those communities. The Baker district, on the other hand, has struggled with low test scores, an increasingly impoverished student body and political infighting. The balkanization is not necessarily over. Speculation continues that other communities in Baton Rouge — southeast Baton Rouge is often discussed — will follow suit. OXFORD, Miss. — Right there on the cusp of arguably one of the greatest comebacks in LSU history, the Tigers needed one or two more plays Saturday. Allison Hightower led five double-digit scorers with 15 points in seventh-ranked LSU's 86-49 rout of Nicholls State tonight at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints keep on rolling. Brees threw for three touchdowns and the Saints shrugged off a slow start defensively to remain unbeaten Sunday with a 38-7 rout of the struggling Tampa Bay Buccaneers and young quarterback Josh Freeman. Sometimes, Orinda Maten is lucky and draws a shift at the Walmart store off Siegen Lane that ends early enough to allow her to catch a bus home at night. On those nights when she works late, though, she often ends her workday with a two-mile walk back to the Crestwood Suites Extended Stay Hotel on South Sherwood Forest Boulevard. Thanksgiving isn’t Gov. Bobby Jindal’s only big dinner this week. The governor and first lady Supriya Jindal will attend President Barack Obama’s state dinner Tuesday for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, press spokesman Kyle Plotkin confirmed. A Baton Rouge man was killed Friday night when his sport utility vehicle drifted from his lane into oncoming traffic and collided with another vehicle, according to a Baton Rouge Police Department news release. Several Louisiana lawmakers expressed their displeasure about how it’s run, but a legislative budget committee finally agreed to let the Recovery School District move ahead with $163 million in repairs to hurricane-damaged schools in New Orleans. New Roads police arrested the father of an 18-month-old boy Friday after the toddler was found beaten to death at his grandmother’s house last week, police said Saturday. Students and faculty at Southern University’s School of Architecture unveiled its newly renovated Urban + Rural Community Design Research Center to the public Saturday. GONZALES — The Ascension Parish Council last week skipped awarding a project’s low bid to a road contractor who has a pending civil lawsuit against the parish over past road overlay jobs. Despite gusty winds driving a cold rain, 13 men and women on Saturday went “Over the Edge” of an upper deck of Tiger Stadium and rappelled 150 feet to the ground as part of a unique fundraising event for Special Olympics Louisiana. The embattled owner of a shuttered Gonzales home health-care company claims three now-former workers entrusted to run the business while she battled cancer stole proprietary information and then pilfered her clients after going to work for a rival Baton Rouge firm. MOREHEAD, Ky. — Senior guard Tony Hooper knocked down a pull-up, 15-foot jumper with eight-tenths of a second remaining to lift the Louisiana-Monr0e men’s basketball team to a 74-73 victory at Morehead State on Saturday night. The Week Ahead, Nov. 22-28, 2009 The Animal Control Center, 2680 Progress Road, has plenty of animals that need good homes. There are all types of cats and dogs available at the center, which is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays. NEW ROADS — Around Baton Rouge and across southeast Louisiana, parishes that progress most rapidly are those with an executive at the top prioritizing parishwide needs, said State Sen. Rob Marionneaux, D-Grosse Tete. HOUMA — The hole in Alvaro Peralta’s back is about half the size of a dime. His chest bears a large black and blue splotch near the spot where the bullet remains. The 36-year-old laborer also bears the troubling knowledge that he and other men robbed Oct. 17 outside an apartment were chosen because they are considered easy marks simply because they aren’t from the area. OXFORD, Miss. — About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members rallied briefly at the University of Mississippi before Saturday’s football game with No. 10 LSU. The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has $43 million in federal stimulus funds to give to 55 cities and towns around Louisiana to help them upgrade their wastewater infrastructure. Obituary Notices for Nov. 22, 2009 LAFAYETTE -- Ashley Augerson scored 15 points to lead the Southern women's basketball team to a 62-51 victory today against Louisiana-Lafayette. Solar Pointe, a townhouse complex just completed on Coursey Boulevard that uses solar power and captured rainwater to be "virtually self-sufficient," may be fairly unusual in Baton Rouge today. But alternative-energy advocates are hoping generous state tax credits that went into effect last year and a forward-thinking policy change a decade ago will help make it much more common. |
