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• Los Angeles official says early TV coverage of fires would have warned residents 8:00 p.m. CT
• State agencies have too many cars, budget officer says 7:58 p.m. CT
• Gov. Bobby Jindal should reimburse taxpayers for church trips, pastor says 7:40 p.m. CT
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• Twelve arrested in prescription drug ring in St. Tammany Parish, with Video 6:14 p.m. CT
• Slidell man jailed as a teen for a St. Bernard burglary spree is booked with 11 Metairie break-ins 6:55 p.m. CT
• Former St. Tammany deputy booked with stalking, threatening estranged wife 5:58 p.m. CT
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ON THE HILL
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Melancon will challenge Vitter for seat in Senate
WASHINGTON -- Saying he knows more about duck hunting and honor than Sen. David Vitter does, U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, the three-term Blue Dog Democrat from Napoleonville, announced Thursday that he is running for the Senate against the Republican incumbent in what promises to be one of the most closely watched contests in the country in 2010.
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EPA should move quickly on 'dead zone,' report says
The Environmental Protection Agency should move immediately to adopt enforceable limits on the release of nutrient pollutants -- such as fertilizer and sewage -- into rivers and streams to eliminate dangerously low oxygen areas in water bodies, and the Gulf of Mexico dead zone should be one of its first targets, the agency's Office of Inspector General said in a report made public Thursday.
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Friends bridged political divides
WASHINGTON -- Former Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., remembers when a Shreveport newspaper wrote about his friendship with Sen. Edward Kennedy.
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"I can remember saying, 'People are going to die and it's going to be bad.' "'
WASHINGTON -- Four years to the day after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Florida, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate recounted Tuesday how he had tracked the deadly progress of a storm that "had bad written all over it."
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'There was frustration by everybody, including by the FEMA employees'
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Monday that it's her department's job to conclude the long-running dispute over how much FEMA owes Louisiana for the damage inflicted on Charity Hospital by Hurricane Katrina, but up to Louisianians to figure out what happens next and how to pay for what FEMA won't.
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ON THE HILL
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Scalise blasts Obama health plan
U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, used a Thursday evening telephone conference with constituents to continue his assault on President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats for their plans to overhaul the American health insurance system.
