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A man with what Louisiana State Police say were over 5,000 dosages of prescription drugs in a storage unit was arrested Friday afternoon.

Meanwhile, the lawmakers signed off on a fifth satellite early voting location - this one in Orleans Parish.

BATON ROUGE - Louisiana lawmakers digging into details of a $308 million deficit in the state's Medicaid program questioned Tuesday why swine flu has cost Louisiana so much money and why cost-cutting moves were put in place more slowly than expected.

BATON ROUGE - School officials at a Race to the Top information session Thursday said they will wait until the final federal regulations come out before deciding whether to apply for funds aimed at improving low-performing schools.

Annie Morhauser, artist and founder of Annieglass, a California art glass company, encouraged Baton Rouge entertainers to start thinking now about how they want to set their holiday tables.

Two St. Gabriel police officers were arrested accused of taking $2,000 from a man killed in an August car accident.

Kleinpeter Farms Dairy has expanded its ice cream sales into north Louisiana, which will be followed in about a year by sales there of the dairy's milk.

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BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana School Boards Association is encouraging its members not to participate in the federal Race to the Top program.

The state social service agency Tuesday announced closure of a dozen child-care centers throughout the state that posed safety risks to children.

A 22-year-old Baton Rouge man was sentenced to 36 years in prison Tuesday for a May 2005 crime spree that included the rapes of two 20-year-old women during separate home-invasion armed robberies.

Police say an LSU transfer student from the United Kingdom has been accused of repeatedly raping a woman on campus over the weekend.

Share + Nov 3, 2009 6:50 pm US/Eastern BATON ROUGE, La. 1 of 1 Keith Bardwell, who is white, refused to marry an interracial La.

The Louisiana Association of Educators officials said Monday they will soon be meeting with the Avoyelles Parish School District's Filipino teachers who have joined hundreds of other Louisiana educators denouncing labor contract violations by their recruiter.

The chairman of the Louisiana Board of Ethics wants to change the state law that allows administrative law judges to decide ethics cases, but several things, including his dispute with the chairman of the House panel that handles ethics matters, stand in the way.

A Walker man was killed in a two-vehicle crash this morning just after 6:00 am on LA 42 west of LA 44 in Ascension Parish.

The longtime chief investigator for the Baton Rouge Public Defender's Office admitted in federal court that he bribed a now former city prosecutor "and other court officials" to fix criminal and traffic cases in City Court and state District Court in Baton Rouge.

BATON ROUGE - Every in-home health provider that cares for Louisiana Medicaid patients will be audited by the state, the health department announced Thursday in an attempt to combat fraud estimated to siphon off millions from the Medicaid program each year.

BATON ROUGE - Instead of worrying about whether it has too many state universities, Louisiana needs to concentrate on making the ones it has the best they can be, an out-of-state expert who is serving on a state review panel said.

BATON ROUGE, La. - The Louisiana Lottery Corporation reports that nobody won the major jackpots in the Louisiana Lotto and multistate Powerball drawings Wednesday night.