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Gov. Bobby Jindal's top budget architect says the state will have enough money to cover the costs of privatizing all but one of the 10 LSU-run hospitals.more>> Gov. Bobby Jindal's top budget architect says the state will have enough money to cover the costs of privatizing all but one of the 10 LSU-run hospitals.more>> Within the next several weeks, at the mouth of Bayou St. John, a contractor will dredge a small channel to better connect the bayou with Lake Pontchartrain.
more>> Within the next several weeks, at the mouth of Bayou St. John, a contractor will dredge a small channel to better connect the bayou with Lake Pontchartrain.
more>> A federal judge has refused to let the city of New Orleans out of a potentially expensive agreement to reform its troubled police department.more>> A federal judge has refused to let the city of New Orleans out of a potentially expensive agreement to reform its troubled police department.more>> Harahan police and members of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office are going out weekly to hunt for the animals, which pose a danger to the community.
more>> Harahan police and members of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office are going out weekly to hunt for the animals, which pose a danger to the community.
more>> For the first time in 65 years, the building which houses Brennan's restaurant will no longer be owned by one of the city's premiere restaurant families. It was sold at auction this afternoon, in spitemore>> For the first time in 65 years, the building which houses Brennan's restaurant will no longer be owned by one of the city's premiere restaurant families. It was sold at auction this afternoon, in spitemore>> "Fourth District detectives obtained an arrest warrant for 22-year-old Kemond Pierre, for shooting a 25-year-old man multiple times Sunday, May 16."more>> "Fourth District detectives obtained an arrest warrant for 22-year-old Kemond Pierre, for shooting a 25-year-old man multiple times Sunday, May 16."more>> The Louisiana Senate has killed a resolution that sought to keep the state from using a set of uniform national standards for public school testing, called Common Core standards.more>> The Louisiana Senate has killed a resolution that sought to keep the state from using a set of uniform national standards for public school testing, called Common Core standards.more>> The African-American pilots and crews overcame prejudice to get training and to fly in combat during World War II.more>> The African-American pilots and crews overcame prejudice to get training and to fly in combat during World War II.more>> Gulf of Mexico anglers will have a longer red snapper season than they thought.more>> Gulf of Mexico anglers will have a longer red snapper season than they thought.more>> Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season. Thursday's outlook calls for 13 to 20 named stormsmore>> Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season. Thursday's outlook calls for 13 to 20 named stormsmore>>
NAPOLEONVILLE, La. (AP) - Officials have closed a four-mile section of highway near an acre of swampland that liquefied into soupy muck, toppling tall baldcypress trees and bending a 400-foot-long section of a natural gas pipeline toward the area.
Louisiana Highway 70 crosses over three natural gas pipelines in that area.
Assumption Parish emergency preparedness director John Boudreaux says the gas was rerouted and officials hoped to have pressure in those lines low enough to reopen the highway by 8 or 9 p.m. Sunday.
He says about 150 homes and several businesses will remain under mandatory evacuation, and a shelter remains open. Residents were told to leave Friday as the area of slurry expanded to about three-quarters of an acre. It expanded again Saturday afternoon.
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