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Shreveport Times Gustav swirled toward Cuba today after triggering flooding and landslides that killed at least 22 people in the Caribbean. Its track pointed toward the U.S. Gulf coast, including Louisiana where Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc three years ago.
Shreveport Times Conservative state Rep. Henry Burns has endorsed Republican Jeff Thompson in the campaign to replace retiring congressman Jim McCrery, Thompson's campaign says.
Shreveport Times A Ringgold man was arrested late Tuesday on charges of second-offense DWI, Bossier Sheriff's officials say.
Shreveport Times Gustav still could reform as an extremely dangerous storm as it tracks toward the Gulf of Mexico, with chances of a Louisiana landfall.
Shreveport Times Volunteers are needed for the annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon on Sunday and Monday at Bass Pro Shops in the Louisiana Boardwalk.
Shreveport Times North Louisiana Republican Congressman Jim McCrery will announce the gift of his official papers to LSU Shreveport today. The press conference will be at 10 a.m. on the third floor of the Noel Memorial Library on the campus.
Shreveport Times NEW IBERIA, La. (AP) _ An Iberia Parish principal who was arrested in July on drug charges was arrested again for allegedly lying during the drug investigation.
Thirty-eight-year-old Darius Sias, principal of the Alternative Center for Education in New Iberia, was firt arrested July 29. He was arrested again Tuesday for allegedly providing false information to detectives during the investigation. He was booked into the Iberia Parish Correctional Center on a $40,000 bond.
Sias was still on administrative leave from his position after being arrested in July.
Shreveport Times BATON ROUGE — Construction firm The Shaw Group Inc. will build a Lake Charles manufacturing plant and create 1,400 jobs as part of a state tax incentive deal worth $210 million to the company.
Shreveport Times BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ Here are the winning numbers selected Tuesday in the Louisiana Lottery:
Pick 3
2-9-9
(two, nine, nine)
Maximum prize $500
Pick 4
5-1-9-2
(five, one, nine, two)
Maximum prize $5,000
Shreveport Times DENVER — Hillary Rodham Clinton summoned millions of voters who supported her in the primaries to send Barack Obama to the White House on Tuesday night, declaring in a Democratic National Convention speech that the man who defeated her "is my candidate and he must be our president."
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