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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 Thursday afternoon, in spite of a last-ditch effort by Owen 'Pip' Brennan to save it.
It was bought by Terry White, a local businessman. White has ties to a group called Leggo 4.
Brennan's was open for business Thursday, and
...(CNN) — Openly gay youths will be allowed to join scouting, delegates to the annual meeting of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday.
More than 60% of the group’s 1,400-member national council voted in Grapevine, Texas, for the historic policy change, which will take effect January 1.
“No youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone,” says the approved resolution.
The BSA will maintain its ban on gay adult leaders.
“The resolution also reinforces that Scouting is a youth program, and any sexual conduct, whether heterosexual or homosexual, by youth of Scouting age is contrary to the virtues of Scouting,” the 103-year-old organization said in a statement.
The BSA said there are no plans for further review of the issue.
“The Boy Scouts of America will
...The most impressive tailgating rig parked on the Louisiana State University campus during this weekend’s Bayou Country Superfest will be Rusty Hamlin’s . He takes the concept of meals on wheels to a whole other level.
Hamlin, a Baton Rouge native now based in Atlanta, is the executive chef for the Zac Brown Band’s Southern Ground organization . As such, he oversees “Cookie,” a $750,000 mobile professional kitchen that fills an 18-wheeler’s entire 54-foot-trailer.
Before or after concerts, many bands host “meet and greet” sessions, in which fans and contest winners line up for a quick photo or autograph. Hamlin and Brown pioneered the “Eat and Greet," in which fans sit down alongside the musicians to eat a gourmet meal made with fresh, local ingredients.
“When you’re waiting for an autograph or picture, you have only 10 seconds with the artist,” Hamlin said from Atlanta this week. “Everybody’s all freaked
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Count the Port of New Orleans among those opposed to a proposal to tear down the elevated Interstate 10 expressway over North Claiborne Avenue.
The port's Dock Board, its governing body, unanimously passed a resolution Thursday noting its opposition to the idea, saying it would increase travel times for trucks hauling freight in the New Orleans region, which would spike costs for cargo operators.
The resolution contends that the port board "supports the community development mission of the Livable Claiborne Communities Study," the $2.7 million review weighing options, from economic development to neighborhood revitalization, along the 3.9-mile-long South and North Claiborne corridor, from Napoleon Avenue to Elysian Fields Avenue.
Still, the port "has an obligation as part of its maritime mission to foster the efficient movement of freight by truck in the New Orleans region," the resolution states.
Initial findings from a March report commissioned by the port showed nearly
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The most impressive tailgating rig parked on the Louisiana State University campus during this weekend’s Bayou Country Superfest will be Rusty Hamlin’s . He takes the concept of meals on wheels to a whole other level.
Hamlin, a Baton Rouge native now based in Atlanta, is the executive chef for the Zac Brown Band’s Southern Ground organization . As such, he oversees “Cookie,” a $750,000 mobile professional kitchen that fills an 18-wheeler’s entire 54-foot-trailer.
Before or after concerts, many bands host “meet and greet” sessions, in which fans and contest winners line up for a quick photo or autograph. Hamlin and Brown pioneered the “Eat and Greet," in which fans sit down alongside the musicians to eat a gourmet meal made with fresh, local ingredients.
“When you’re waiting for an autograph or picture, you have only 10 seconds with the artist,” Hamlin said from Atlanta this week. “Everybody’s all freaked
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner was replaced Thursday as director of the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups.
Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email that he had selected a new acting head of the division, staying within the IRS to find new leadership.
Ken Corbin, a 27-year IRS veteran, will be the new acting director of the agency's exempt organizations division. Corbin currently is a deputy director in the wage and investment division, where he oversees 17,000 workers responsible for processing 172 million individual and business tax returns, Werfel said.
Werfel's email Thursday made no mention of Lerner. But a congressional aide who was briefed on the matter said Lerner was placed on administrative leave. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity because a personnel
...Scott Satchfield / Eyewitness News
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NEW ORLEANS -- They took over the metro area Wednesday night -- swarms of Formosan termites.
Anita Walker felt like she was under attack at her apartment complex near the lakefront.
“They were everywhere,” she said. "Before I could even get my key in the door, they were all over my pants, my shirt, in my hair."
Formosan swarms are nothing new here, but one expert says this was different.
"What happened last night was absolutely the worst swarm of Formosan termites I've seen since I've been in the business, which is 1958. It was huge," said Ed Martin, an entomologist with Terminix.
Martin said
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The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts. Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 percent supported the proposal. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.
Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 percent supported the proposal.
Under the proposal drafted by the Scouts' governing board, gay adults will remain barred from serving as Scout leaders.
The outcome is unlikely to end a bitter debate over the Scouts' membership policy.
Some conservative churches that sponsor Scout units wanted to continue excluding gay youths, in some cases threatening to defect if the ban
...EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The NFL draft is history. Organized team activities are under way. Minicamps will follow next month, and training camps will open a month after that.
The 2013 season is on the horizon and so is the cold-weather Super Bowl.
The title game on Feb. 2 at MetLife Stadium is less than nine months away and no one knows it better than Al Kelly, the chief executive of the New York-New Jersey
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