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Saturday, November 21, 2009
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By their once-a-week nature, college football games all have a ton of meaning attached, even for teams whose seasons have taken detours from ascribed goals.
Nucor Corp., the North Carolina steelmaker once expected to announce a major steel mill investment in 2008, likely won’t make a decision to build in Louisiana or Brazil until 2010, a state official said. Meeting fellow artists and art lovers is the reason Taufeeq Muhammad joined the thousands who followed the twinkling white lights to the Mid-City Merchants Association’s annual art hop Friday night. Angola’s warden Burl Cain told a group of legislators Friday that there are about 200 prisoners he would send home if he could. At an average cost of $54.50 a day to house a state prisoner, those 200 are costing the state about $4 million a year. How billions of state dollars are spent on current contracts can now be found online. The new information on state government services contracts is an addition to LaTrac, the Louisiana Transparency and Accountability Portal, that launched in November 2008. Metro Council members will soon be asked to authorize the settlement of two civil lawsuits filed by women who say they were raped by a former Baton Rouge police officer. HAMMOND — A private Hammond hospital built three years ago but never opened will be sold at auction in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New Orleans on Dec. 9, court records show. Six years after a popular Vietnamese grocer was gunned down at his north Baton Rouge store, two men are under indictment in his slaying. Detectives arrested a Hammond man in connection with a series of burglaries, the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office reported Friday. GONZALES — State troopers and city police arrested a Gonzales man Thursday in a state investigation of child pornography activities, Louisiana State Police reported Friday. The Louisiana Supreme Court suspended the law license of the former Baton Rouge City Court prosecutor on Friday who, along with six other people, has pleaded guilty in a federal corruption probe of the local criminal justice system. A man wanted in the rape of another man earlier this week surrendered to authorities late Thursday, a police spokesman said. East Baton Rouge Parish school officials are celebrating after persuading Capital One bank to underwrite more than $21 million in construction bonds. GONZALES — The Ascension Parish Council selected without comment or a recommendation from its roads committee engineering firms for three contracts worth up to $200,000 each. WALKER — A car collided with an 18-wheeler, causing a fire and explosion that shut down Interstate 12 Friday morning, police reported. LAFAYETTE — Space is still available in Lafayette Parish’s new eCampus program. The digital school began last week with 15 students, and as of Friday four more had applied, said Jarrett Coutee, the Lafayette Parish eCampus director. The goal is to enroll 75 to 100 students. LAFAYETTE — A proposed 64-lot subdivision near Scott has highlighted problems that are becoming more common as developers eye large tracts in rural Lafayette Parish. LAFAYETTE — Thanks to community support, the Police Association of Lafayette was able to provide 41 families with a complete Thanksgiving feast. The economic slowdown is forcing state health officials to pull back on increases in the number of people with developmental disabilities who receive community services. The Louisiana Board of Ethics refused Friday to ratify a ruling by an administrative law judge panel in a campaign finance disclosure case involving Walter Boasso, a candidate in the 2007 governor’s race. THIBODAUX — Nicholls State says it does more than educate Louisiana residents — it also is a big contributor to the state’s work force. GONZALES — A 12-member jury this week convicted a Prairieville man of committing attempted aggravated rape about 10 years ago, a fugitive brought to justice with a boost from the “America’s Most Wanted” TV show, prosecutors said. A 26-year-old Tickfaw man with offices in Baton Rouge and other cities was indicted Friday for allegedly operating a fraudulent scheme that snared $19.5 million from about 160 investors. AMITE — A Hammond businessman accused of bilking more than 200 investors out of $11 million posted bail to gain his release from custody Friday, according to court and jail records. The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development posted changes in Mississippi River ferryboat schedules through the Thanksgiving holiday weekend at New Roads, Plaquemine, St. Francisville and White Castle. A 20-year-old Baton Rouge man who pleaded guilty last year to an armed robbery conspiracy charge in the 2006 killing of a father and son will spend 15 years in prison. Two men will serve 12 years in prison for their roles in the 2006 killing of a 47-year-old man at a Baker washateria. A 16-year-old Baton Rouge boy will be tried as an adult in the Nov. 1 shooting death of a 19-year-old man on Winbourne Avenue, District Attorney Hillar Moore III said Friday. Three nominees to the Terra Industries board of directors — who were backed by fertilizer rival CF Industries — were elected Friday in a vote that could boost CF’s bid to take over Terra. A Mississippi bank has sued developer James G. Tanner III and one of his firms, City View Condominiums LLC, for $1.7 million, claiming City View failed to make payments from July through October on a $2.2 million loan. Imperial Sugar Co., a Breaux Bridge-based growers cooperative, and Minneapolis-based Cargill Inc. have secured financing for a previously announced $120 million sugar refinery that will lead to 145 jobs in Gramercy. Today's funeral notices. Class 5A |
