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- A landmark ruling, if it stands
- The echoes from Hurricane Katrina have never stopped ringing through Louisiana. They began with the discovery of hundreds of bodies trapped by the rapidly rising floods and continued through the ordeal endured by evacuees through the…
- Opelousas Daily World
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- 1 hour ago
- Pontiac Silverdome sold at auction for $583,000
- The Pontiac, Mich., Silverdome, built three decades ago for $56 million, is being virtually given away -- sold at auction for a paltry $583,000. That comes out to $7.25 a seat, a fire sale that's reduced the once-proud arena to another sad…
- New Orleans Times-Picayune
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- 2 hours ago
New Orleans Times-Picayune- U.S. nails Chinese drywall for woes in homes
- MIAMI -- What thousands of homeowners nationwide have believed about Chinese drywall was validated yesterday, when the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission said there is a link between the imported material and problems with corrosion…
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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- Mortgage Layoffs Outpace Hirings According to…
- Florida saw a bigger third-quarter net loss in real estate finance jobs than any other state. Loss-mitigation hirings by CitiMortgage Inc. helped give Missouri the biggest net gain. State Net Gain/Loss Florida -1,355 Washington -824 New…
- Biloxi Sun Herald
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- 3 hours ago
- Annual Dysfunctional Family Thanksgiving Dinner
- To be thankful for anything much at all requires humility, I believe. I have little enough of it; in fact, I have a dichotomy common to alcoholics, and that is a combination of both arrogance and self-loathing. Hardly conducive to genuine…
- San Diego weekly Reader
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- 2 hours ago
- Holiday calendar
- Deadline to order poinsettias from The Bridge Over Troubled Waters. In 6. 5” pots with 6-8 blooms, 12-14“ high. The cost is $13. Pick up on Tuesday, Dec. 1 at Durrett Motor Co., 5520 Shaver, Houston. Call 713-472-0753 for complete…
- Houston Community Newspapers
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- 4 hours ago
- Spouse's finances fair game under proposed ethics law
- ... proposed new form. "I think it's very manageable and attractive." He noted that states that got high grades from the Center for Public Integrity, including North Carolina and Louisiana, have long, complicated disclosure forms ...…
- Charleston Gazette
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- 4 hours ago
- More Louisiana editorials
- The News Star, Monroe, La. On: Success in unity The words stung in April 2006, when then-Secretary of Economic Development Michael Olivier talked tough with local officials. At that point, Olivier said the state was working on 53 active…
- Dispatch
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- 6 hours ago
- Bones from house will be identified, returned
- HOUMA — Terrebonne Parish sheriff's and coroner's investigators say old bones found in a house in Gibson have been sent to Louisiana State University anthropologists to analyze. Investigators doubt there was any crime. Gary Alford, senior…
- News-Star
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- 6 hours ago
- For Former Gulf Fisherman, Global Wqrming threatens way of…
- The disappearing land imperils homes and livelihoods in a region the United States depends on for one- third of its oil and seafood. Scientists say the entire Gulf fishery could disappear if the erosion and the warming are not reversed.
- WREG
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- 5 hours ago