Pelican News

Friends of the DeSoto Parish Library will hold open house events at the parish's library locations over the next two weeks.

Two mice meet by accident, one from New Orleans and the other Acadiana in Todd-Michael St.

PELICAN - Friends of the Pelican Branch Library will have a book sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the DeSoto Library branch, 145 Jackson Ave.

Pelican Briefs , an online collection of news, notes and insights on Louisiana politics from reporters in The Times-Picayune's Baton Rouge and Washington bureaus, makes its debut today.

RINGGOLD - "Louisiana History: Perspectives on the Pelican State" will be presented from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays starting Oct.

U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La. U.S. Sen. David Vitter , R-La., will today host a forum in Baton Rouge to discuss the fraud case against Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford , who is accused by federal prosecutors of running a Ponzi scheme that ruined many residents of Louisiana.

Rockin' Dopsie Jr. is one of the performers scheduled for this year's Pelicanpalooza.

Almost as soon as scientists who just measured the "dead zone" off Louisiana's coast get their gear off the research boat "Pelican," scientists from Texas A&M will be loading it for a different look at the phenomenon.

During a previous economic downturn, the federal government sought to get people back to work - and that included writers.

To the surprise of many, Governor Bobby Jindal vetoed HB 781, which would have created a 17-member council to battle homelessness and a "Homeless Czar" that would have insured resources in the fight against homelessness were not duplicated or wasted.

Louisiana proved fertile ground for R. Allen Stanford, the Texas financier who pleaded innocent on Thursday to federal criminal charges of stealing $7 billion in an international Ponzi scheme.

Two Shreveport entities are among the 11 Louisiana organizations named as 2009 Distinguished Partners in Education by the Louisiana Department of Education.

Carol McManis has fond memories of former classmate Michael Prince Harris. "He was a real people-oriented person.

While some university lab work entails hours of scooping rat droppings or entering statistics into databases, other research assignments have students taking a cruise.