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NEW ORLEANS - The Planned Parenthood building coming to South Claiborne Avenue doesn't even have walls yet but it certainly has enough controversy surrounding it.
At the groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday, many spoke in support of the new facility, but there were some protesters as well.
Planned Parenthood officials say they’re proud to be opening a new site offering affordable health care. The facility will offer everything from cancer screening to information about birth control methods. On Tuesday, a state house panel gave the OK to legislation urging several state agencies to investigate Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. They want to make sure the operation is following federal and state laws. Earlier this week, protesters came together to oppose the new clinic. That opposition was addressed at today’s groundbreaking.
“If Planned Parenthood wasn’t doing abortions,
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SLIDELL, La. - There is a man somewhere in the country who is battling leukemia and he might be saved by a man he has never met who lives in Slidell.
What would cause this Northshore husband and father to take time away from his family to help a stranger?
As a Coast Guard recruiter, Petty Officer Kevin Frazier is used to helping people sign up for the service.
But when his father-in-law was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, Kevin signed up to be part of the Department of Defense Bone Marrow Registry. He hoped to be a match to give his father in law a life saving bone marrow
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A Louisiana Senate panel backed two bills aimed at tightening regulations around the state's salt domes and solution-mined caverns. The move comes two days after Gov. Bobby Jindal announced he's issued an executive order to review a brine producer's permits after one of their caverns collapsed and formed a sinkhole in Assumption Parish.
House Bills 493 and 494 by Rep. Karen Gaudet St. Germain, D-Pierre Part, were written in response to a 15-acre sinkhole that first appeared in the swamplands of Assumption Parish last August.
The bills would require the Commissioner of Conservation to come up with rules controlling the drilling, operations and plugging of brine and storage caverns that have been drilled into the state's salt domes.
HB493 would require companies looking to drill into salt domes to map out any nearby solution, disposal and storage caverns in relation to planned wells. The bill also mandates the caverns be
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...Louisiana Sen. David Vitter will spend several days this fall raising money for an outside group set up to support him in both state and federal elections, fueling speculation that the Republican may be preparing to run for governor in 2015.
The Fund for Louisiana’s Future will host a $5,000-a-head “Louisiana Bayou Weekend” to benefit the independent expenditure organization, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO.
Continue ReadingVitter will appear at the event, which will run from Sept. 5 to 7. The invitation advertises “Cajun cooking,” an “airboat swamp tour” and an all-caps-worthy “ALLIGATOR HUNT.”
The invitation lists Courtney Guastella, a former finance director for Vitter’s Senate campaign, as the point of contact for attendees. The group’s chairman and treasurer is Charlie Spies, the former head of the Mitt Romney super PAC Restore Our Future.
Spies said there’s “no way to draw conclusions” about Vitter’s plans based on the
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Covington came up short in its quest to be the cleanest city of its size in Louisiana, finishing fourth in its division in competition judged on May 10. The city of Rayne took the title, followed by Tallulah and St. Martinville. Harahan finished fifth.
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A former New Orleans police captain who was convicted of plotting to arrange a contract to provide security for Entergy at inflated rates and then skim off the top has had his prison sentence reduced by more than three years.
A federal appeals court panel in January upheld Michael Roussel's conviction , but threw out the sentence of 11 years and four months that U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier handed him in September 2011.
Barbier re-sentenced the former NOPD traffic division commander on Thursday to eight years in the federal pen, a court clerk said.
Roussel, 49, a 19-year NOPD veteran before his conviction, was arrested in June, 2010 , accused of helping to arrange an overpriced security contract between Gladius Inc., a firm owned by his friend, Joseph Branch, and Entergy.
The idea was to inflate the contract so Roussel and Louis Dabdoub, an Entergy security manager and
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The Army blimp that floated away from Fort Polk remained missing Wednesday, a spokesperson for the post in west-central Louisiana said. The aerostat blimp, which was involved in an exercise, broke loose Sunday from its tether and drifted of the sprawling Army post.
The blimp was expected to have landed sometime early Monday, leading Fort Polk officials to alert the public that it was federal property. It is a Blimp in a Box system, part an Army contract with World Surveillance Group.
The blimps are contained in an all-terrain vehicle that can be towed behind Humvees and are equipped with cameras and sensors to let soldiers see enemy activity. The systems also could be used by law enforcement agencies.
World Surveillance Group delivered the first of two Blimp in a Box systems to the Army last month, according to news reports.
Anyone with information on its whereabouts may call Fort
...All it takes is a clip from Stephen King’s Cujo to scare any owner into getting their pet a rabies vaccine! Even if your dog isn’t quite so big or scary, the law requires your pup get its shot. The problem? Some dogs can have a reaction.
“There is kind-of a misplaced inflammatory reaction that results in a process that we call vasculitis.” At Southeast Veterinary Clinic, Dr. Steve Lemarie is treating vasculitis in a Chihuahua named Gucci. He says reactions to rabies vaccines are common in the breed. Vasculitis causes inflammatory cells to target small blood vessels in the skin, which results in lesions on Gucci’s tail, ears and toes along with bruising on the skin.
Dr. Lemarie says, “We’re just collecting a little bit of the exudate from the lesion and we’re gonna stain it and take a look at it under the microscope and see if we
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