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Friday, November 20, 2009
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A Baton Rouge attorney who years ago made an unsuccessful run for secretary of state was arrested Wednesday for allegedly raping a man earlier this week at his home.
A sister of Mayor-President Kip Holden pleaded guilty Thursday in an ongoing federal probe of bribery in the local criminal justice system. Two other people also pleaded guilty, bringing the total to seven since October. Evelyn J. Holden, who worked in the property records section of the East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court Office, could be sentenced to as many as five years in prison for conspiracy in aid of racketeering.
AMITE — State fraud investigators and sheriff’s deputies arrested a leading Hammond businessman Thursday accused of operating a Ponzi scheme that cost at least 200 investors an estimated $11 million and funded his lavish lifestyle.
The state Department of Education is so bureaucratic and unresponsive to children that it needs to be overhauled from top to bottom, a member of the state’s top school board said Thursday.
A man wanted in the rape of another man earlier this week surrendered to authorities late Thursday, a spokesman with the Baton Rouge Police Department said today. Samuel J. Moore, 25, was booked into Parish Prison on a count of aggravated rape, Cpl. L’Jean McKneely said.
California-based Primoris Services Corp. announced today it has signed a $135 million deal to acquire Baton Rouge-based James Construction Group LLC, one of the largest privately owned construction companies in the Southeast.
Organizers of two technology-focused high schools proposed for downtown urged a surprisingly cordial East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on Thursday to reverse its August denial of their proposal. Board members discussed the proposal Thursday but plans to vote yes or no at a special meeting Dec. 3.
LSU System President John Lombardi is satirically proposing a federal bailout for higher education nationwide. In presenting “The Higher Education Foundations Act,” Lombardi contends the federal government should fund each public college to the tune of $5,000 per full-time student — half the baseline cost to educate an undergraduate per year — to maintain the quality of the nation’s colleges.
We’re not sure you have to be a dining snob to question a restaurant choice based on its exterior. First impressions and all that.
A. P. Tureaud Jr. has lived for six decades with the memory of LSU students beating on his dormitory door all night and professors refusing to acknowledge his presence in their classrooms or to even touch his homework papers.
