News roundup: Judge recuses herself from ex-BP engineer's case … Minorities surpass whites in U.S. births … Nation's unemployment aid applications stay at 370,000
On the bench: A federal judge in New Orleans has recused herself from the criminal case against a former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company's response to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S...
DATE: May 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
School system's new bus plan would require 50 fewer buses
Officials with the East Baton Rouge Parish School System, which is legally required to provide bus service to Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge schools, have previously said the system could save $2 million next year by changing the start time of the...
DATE: May 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
What's the big idea?
"Every really new idea looks crazy at first.” Alfred North Whitehead, pillar of Cambridge and founding father of analytic psychology, said that. Radiohead, an art-rock group of English intellectuals of a different sort, once had a song called...
DATE: May 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: News (225)
FastFood
Summer is looming, and with it the prospect of long hours in the car, road-tripping to new cities, or landing in unfamiliar territory with no clue where to grab a good cup of coffee or a decent midnight snack. With the free FastFood...
DATE: May 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: (Dine) App-etite
B.R. pharmaceutical company begins new trials on ovarian cancer drug
Esperance Pharmaceuticals, a Baton Rouge-based company founded on technology developed at LSU, Pennington Biomedical Research Center and the LSU AgCenter, announced today it has begun enrollment of a randomized, multicenter Phase 2 trial of its lead...
DATE: May 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Sports roundup: Brees no longer putting a positive spin on contract talks … Alabama fan indicted for alleged post-BCS sexual assault on LSU fan … Saints' Vilma sues Roger Goodell for defamation
Words without ink: New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees was no longer putting any kind of optimistic spin on his lingering contract standoff with the Saints on Wednesday, telling WWL radio that the process has been "extremely...
DATE: May 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Conservative state lawmakers fail to block budget bill
A bloc of conservative Republicans in the Louisiana House of Representatives couldn't stall a budget bill today that taps into one-time dollars to help piece together spending plans for the next fiscal year. The House voted 63-38 to send the bill to...
DATE: May 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
B.R. casinos buck losing trend in April, post 4% winnings increase
While the state's 10 riverboat casinos outside Baton Rouge posted a combined decrease in winnings of about 8% in April compared to the same month last year, the Belle of Baton Rouge and Hollywood Casino collectively won 4.3% more from gamblers on...
DATE: May 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Reginelli's looks beyond Louisiana
If you ever go to Houston: The owners of fine-dining restaurant Commander's Palace have partnered with those of Reginelli's Pizzeria to expand the casual Italian eatery beyond their shared hometown of New Orleans, Nation's...
DATE: May 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: (Dine) Roundup
'Battleship' shape
A routine day at sea turns into anything but at the movie theater this Friday with director Peter Berg’s new sci-fi war movie Battleship, filmed in part in Baton Rouge last year. Based loosely on the popular grid-guessing game from...
DATE: May 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: 225 Weekender
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