Monday, May 12, 2008
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Fans couldn’t take their seats with them Sunday after the last regular season game at LSU’s Alex Box Stadium, but they could take their memories and, if they wanted, a souvenir T-shirt or program.
Lawmakers slashed Gov. Bobby Jindal’s $30 billion state government spending plan by $120 million Sunday. Most of the cuts in House Bill 1 — the budget legislation for the state spending year that begins July 1 — were to the Medicaid program and public colleges and universities. WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Rodney Alexander talked to 1,400 of his constituents on a recent night without leaving his Capitol Hill office. The Quitman Republican was participating in the latest rage in Congress and among the Louisiana congressional delegation: “tele-town talks.” Want a biscuit cutter starting at $40? How about some vintage rolling pins now at $25? Or maybe a large food chopper for $300? Until recently, you would have heard about such sales for obsolete school food service equipment only at a government auction. But increasingly, these auctions are migrating to the Internet. SATSUMA — After overcoming a severe financial situation in which it had to seek help from fire departments and municipalities in 2006, the Livingston Parish 911 Center faces another monetary crunch. The parish’s fire chiefs like the job the 911 Center is doing, but this time the 11 fire departments cannot afford to help because they are facing high fuel costs, said Brian Drury, president of the Livingston Parish Fire Chiefs Association. When many who fought in Vietnam returned home, they were received with less than open arms — even by veterans of previous conflicts. “I came home and went on down to join the VFW and they treated me like … I was just a piece of trash,” said Roger Arnold, of Port Allen. “They actually told me I wasn’t in a war. I don’t belong there.” Authorities arrested at least nine people suspected of driving while intoxicated in East Baton Rouge Parish and booked them into Parish Prison between 3 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, booking records show. Two people were killed early Sunday in a head-on collision in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana State Police said. Baker police deployed their Special Response Team and Crisis Negotiation Team Sunday morning to an apartment on Seville Avenue where a man had barricaded himself inside with a gun. LAFAYETTE — With his tall, brawny frame perched like a gargoyle behind thundering drums and with his arms and hair whipped by the breeze of an electric fan, Jonathan Strate appears fearsome onstage. However, some things are more than they appear. A new state-organized panel will spend the next six months reviewing technical, social and environmental aspects of the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane protection project. The intent is to expedite construction of the hurricane protection for Terrebonne Parish, said Garrett Graves, of the Governor’s Office of Coastal Activities. Around Baton Rouge for May 12, 2008 Obituary Notices for May 12, 2008 House convenes at 2 p.m. Senate convenes at 2 p.m. |
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