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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
- The conclusion followed testing at 51 homes in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia that found "a strong association between the problem drywall, the hydrogen sulfide levels in homes with that drywall and corrosion in those…
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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- 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
- Clem's Chronicles: Afghanistan/WH State Dinner/Holiday Travel
- AFGHANISTAN/US POLICY DECISION- Well we don’t exactly know what has been decided but we know when we’ll know. President Obama will address the nation next Tuesday with the details of his decision. Jake Tapper, filing for WORLD NEWS this…
- ABC News Blogs
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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…
- Houma Courier
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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…
- Washington Bureau - JIM TANKERSLEY Reporting from St. Tammany Parish, La. By the time climate change pushes sea levels high enough to swallow Cliff Glockner's stilt house northeast of New Orleans, most of the low-lying Gulf islands he…
- WHO-TV
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- 6 hours ago
- Wyo. Co. panel: Boom on the way
- The panelists consisted of Rick Lochen of Peoples National Bank, Stark Bartron of Bartron Supply, Donna Labar of Century 21 Real Estate, and Brian Grove of Chesapeake Energy. Grove said a common misperception is that its company would all…
- New Age-Examiner
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- 6 hours ago
- A Defining Moment
- Friday the 13th was very lucky for IberiaBank shareholders. The announcement that day that the company had purchased two failing Florida banks registered a 3.5 on the national financial Richter Scale, but it sent a major shockwave through…
- The INDsider
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- 7 hours ago