Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says Louisiana’s insurance market is stronger and more competitive today than it was before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita…
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Following some criticism of New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu of Republican gubernatorial candidate and Senator David Vitter; saying he has not delivered enough federal assistance in the city’s high murder rate, today, Vitter fired back. He said the murder rate is mostly the responsibility of local leadership, and that the mayor should “focus on murders; not monuments.”
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The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education approves the Child Care Assistance Program that will help more low income families receive federal assistance so they can send their kids to daycare. At one time there were about 40-thousand children enrolled, now there are only 15-thousand. State Superintendent of Education John White says this is very much needed…
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State Police say they are looking for a driver they believe is at fault in a fatal hit and run crash in St. Mary Parish Tuesday evening in Bayou Vista. Trooper Dustin Dwight says 31-year-old Mark Montie Jr. of Pineville was pulling out of the Wal-Mart on US Highway 90 and failed to yeild to an oncoming motorcycle…:
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The victim is identified as 22 year-old Jerome Rudolph of Patterson.