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Friday, July 18, 2008

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Livingston Parish Judge Bruce Bennett has ruled that Walker Mayor Travis Clark cannot run for re-election as mayor of Walker. The judge said that he could not find a good enough reason as to why Clark was late to qualify.

A jury of 12 with one alternate was seated this afternoon in the first-degree murder trial of accused serial killer Sean Vincent Gillis.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A woman from suburban New Orleans has filed a recall petition against state Attorney General Buddy Caldwell.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Citing failure to provide aid to an agreed upon number of applicants by summer deadlines, the state has imposed a more than $1 million fine on the private company running the massive Road Home program for Hurricane Katrina victims.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The first two Louisiana residents to become ill from West Nile virus this year are in Caddo and East Baton Rouge parishes.

State District Judge Richard Anderson today set bond at $350,000 for the son of state Rep. Regina A. Barrow, D-Baton Rouge, on a count of principal to second-degree murder. James G. Barrow Jr. and Michael Smith are accused in the killing of Brent Cole, a DeQuincy church musician, who was shot to death in his car in March.

Mayor-President Kip Holden this afternoon will announce plans for a major nature-themed tourist attraction downtown called Audubon Alive, city-parish officials confirmed this morning.

East Baton Rouge voters will have a chance this fall to land two hotels worth nearly $100 million if they approve a bond issue that includes $145 million for the expansion of the River Center and two parking garages.

ST. FRANCISVILLE — A Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate allegedly slashed two security officers with a prison-made knife Saturday in Angola’s Camp D, West Feliciana Parish Sheriff J. Austin Daniel said.

Louisiana's homeland security department should beef up its own staff's knowledge of managing emergency response contracts and debris removal.

Barring intervention from a higher court, the capital murder trial of convicted killer Sean Vincent Gillis will remain in state court in Baton Rouge.

The database feeding Louisiana’s sex offender and child predator registry is being refined to make it easier for law enforcement and the public to track convicted sex offenders.

Stepping gingerly through the sooty rubble that covered his office’s hardwood floors Sunday, Kendrick Talbot grabbed whatever he could salvage off a bookshelf and passed it to family members to carry out of the fire-ravaged house.
 Historic homes go up in blaze

DONALDSONVILLE — Ascension Parish sheriff’s deputies arrested six men Sunday in the slaying of a 23-year-old Donaldsonville man.

Authorities arrested at least eight 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.

Four months after their year-long deployment overseas, 50 members of the U.S. Army Reserve’s 1190th Deployment Support Brigade convened in Baton Rouge on Saturday morning for a “warrior-citizen” celebration with their families.

Central Community School Superintendent Michael Faulk has in the past few weeks explained the school system’s near-$100 million school complex proposal to every civic club, homeowner’s association and church group that would hear him speak.

For bicycle safety instructors like Tom Harris, the easiest way to demonstrate the need for bicycle helmets is to drop an egg on the pavement.

The East Baton Rouge Parish Registrar of Voters Office is conducting a voter registration drive Monday through Friday.

A fire started by an overloaded electrical wall outlet caused heavy damage to a Gus Young Avenue beauty salon.

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