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Baton Rouge's police chief says it was a mistake not to take everyone to jail accused in the beating of a family at a gas station.
more>> Baton Rouge's police chief says it was a mistake not to take everyone to jail accused in the beating of a family at a gas station.
more>> New Orleans officials and cultural advocates say the Mother's Day parade shootings that left 20 people injured won't spell the end of second-line parades, the local tradition that celebrates the city and its people.more>> New Orleans officials and cultural advocates say the Mother's Day parade shootings that left 20 people injured won't spell the end of second-line parades, the local tradition that celebrates the city and its people.more>> Police are investigating two fatal shootings that left a 37-year-old man dead in Central City and a 20 -year-old man dead in the Florida area.more>> Police are investigating two fatal shootings that left a 37-year-old man dead in Central City and a 20 -year-old man dead in the Florida area.more>> The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a shooting in the 1200 block of Horace Street that killed a woman Friday night.more>> The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a shooting in the 1200 block of Horace Street that killed a woman Friday night.more>> The shooting death of a whooping crane has Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials asking for help from the public.
more>> The shooting death of a whooping crane has Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials asking for help from the public.
more>> FOX 8 obtained a copy of a pre-trial services report on one of the suspected gunmen in the Mother's Day shooting.more>> FOX 8 obtained a copy of a pre-trial services report on one of the suspected gunmen in the Mother's Day shooting.more>> A couple of Thibodaux doctors in the business of making people well have a new venture aimed at simply making people feel good.
more>> A couple of Thibodaux doctors in the business of making people well have a new venture aimed at simply making people feel good.more>> Ray Lewis ended his long football career with a Super Bowl win on the turf and now, 8-year old Scooter Compton gets to play on it.
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more>> Investigators with the New Orleans Police Department arrested 19-year-old Monique Pepe Friday for having allowed Shawn Scott to hide out at her residence. more>> "Armed with semiautomatic pistols, the suspects committed the offenses in Metairie beginning in the early morning hours of May 16, 2013."more>> "Armed with semiautomatic pistols, the suspects committed the offenses in Metairie beginning in the early morning hours of May 16, 2013."more>>
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration is returning to lawmakers this week to ask for approval to outsource a state employee health insurance plan.
Jindal's top budget adviser shelved a vote last week when it became clear the contract between the Office of Group Benefits and Blue Cross/Blue Shield didn't have enough votes to win passage.
Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols is scheduled to revisit the request Friday with the House Appropriations and Senate Finance committees.
The meeting comes after two Republican members on the House committee were ousted from the panel, a day after they sided with opponents of Jindal's outsourcing proposal.
Jindal proposes hiring Blue Cross as a cost-cutting move to manage an insurance plan that covers workers, retirees and their dependents. Critics worry the change could harm health benefits.
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