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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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The East Baton Rouge Parish Planning and Zoning Commission’s board said Monday the legal problems of developer Tommy Spinosa are not the board’s concern and, with some debate, decided the developer could meet filing requirements for the controversial Rouzan project one building at a time.
GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — Squalls ahead of a rare late-season tropical storm that was crawling toward the Gulf Coast blew in heavy rain Monday as residents hunkered down mostly at home to ride out high winds and anticipated flooding. Ida had slowed and weakened even more as it approached the coast. Winds were about 60 mph (95 kph) and the storm was about 95 miles (150 km) south-southwest of Mobile, moving only about five miles north in three hours. It was expected to make land early Tuesday before turning east. DENHAM SPRINGS — Six people made chilly plunges into a lake adjacent to Interstate 12 on Monday morning to benefit Special Olympics. “Oh, my God!” said Special Olympic athlete Lydia Roberts when asked if the water was cold when she dove off the side of a pontoon boat. WASHINGTON — No matter how it is sliced, Friday the 13th is going to be a bad day for former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson. The New Orleans Democrat will be sentenced Friday and prosecutors have asked the federal judge in the case to impose a penalty recommended by the court probation office of 27 to 33 years. Three more people in Louisiana have died from complications of swine flu — including a man and a woman from the seven-parish area that includes East Baton Rouge — bringing the total to 33 deaths in the state since August, officials said Monday. An arm of the city-parish’s redevelopment authority has been approved for $60 million in federal tax credits to help spur investment and development in low-income areas of the parish, Mayor President Kip Holden announced Monday. LIVINGSTON — A death warrant filed Monday sets Gerald Bordelon’s execution date for Jan. 7. A jury convicted Bordelon in 2006 of murdering his 12-year-old stepdaughter, Courtney LeBlanc. AMITE — The Tangipahoa Parish Council Monday night did not recommend a replacement for the Robert justice of the peace who resigned last week after receiving national attention for refusing to marry an interracial couple. City-parish, federal and state courts and offices will be closed Wednesday in observance of Veterans Day. Post offices will be closed Wednesday. Only Express Mail will be delivered. Baton Rouge rapper Torrence “Lil Boosie’’ Hatch’s inability to follow a judge’s instructions means he will serve about two years in prison instead of one, prosecutors and his attorney said Monday. The Baton Rouge board of directors of the American Institute of Architects has endorsed the $901 million bond proposal that goes before voters Saturday. Registrar of Voters Elain Lamb’s office recorded 6,362 early ballots cast for the Nov. 14 election, making it a “pretty good turnout,” she said . Southern University marching band hazing victim Marcus Heath of Georgia and his mother, Marilyn, are suing the college for liability in last year’s off-campus initiation event. LIVINGSTON — Livingston Parish has distributed 234 hand-held radios to various emergency agencies to make sure they can talk to each other during hurricanes and other disasters, officials said Monday. A mass seasonal flu vaccination program scheduled Friday at parish health units statewide has been canceled because of a shortage of vaccine, state and local officials said Monday. Public high school students who pursue a “career diploma” should be required to pass the same exit exam as other students, a key education advisory panel said Monday. State officials are receiving private support as they prepare for budget cuts and program reductions, the governor’s chief budget officer said Monday. An energy company has been awarded $5 million in federal Recovery Act funds for an electric plant that would harness the heat of water drawn from far below the Earth’s surface to produce power in Cameron Parish. LAFAYETTE — The second round of community dialogues that will shape the school district’s master plan will be held today and Thursday. LAFAYETTE — An official with a Lafayette group home said the company will appeal the state’s recent decision to revoke its license. FRANKLIN — Two men from St. Mary Parish pleaded guilty Monday on unrelated drug charges. Harold Willie Francois, 29, of Morgan City, pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of cocaine and was sentenced to 20 years at hard labor, according to a news release from the 16th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. VILLE PLATTE — A new program dealing with parents who do not pay their child support so far appears to be working smoothly, a hearing officer told the Evangeline Parish Police Jury on Monday. LSU is celebrating its unofficial 100th year of Homecoming this week. LSU officials trace the university’s homecoming origins back to a gathering of alumni in December 1909 prior to the 50th anniversary of LSU’s founding in 1860. Southern University’s Human Jukebox Marching Band will participate as one of the eight finalists in the Honda Battle of the Bands on Jan. 30, the company announced today. ST. FRANCISVILLE — The state Department of Transportation and Development resumed ferry service on the Mississippi River between St. Francisville and New Roads on Monday afternoon, a day later than expected. Lower-than-expected interest rates on a $12 million bond sale for school construction and renovations in Central could result in a tax break for property owners, school officials said. Police are looking for the man who robbed Dollar General employees at gunpoint Sunday. Two 19-year-old Baton Rouge men pleaded no contest Monday to negligent homicide charges and were sentenced to 10 years in prison in the 2006 slaying of a 61-year-old man and his teenage son. A Baton Rouge teenager accused of shooting a woman and her son with an assault rifle pleaded innocent Monday to two counts of second-degree murder. PLAQUEMINE — Iberville Parish is set to honor our nation’s veterans Wednesday with what has become the parish’s annual “Iberville Salute to Veterans.” The Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council hosts its third annual garage sale on Saturday, in honor of America Recycles Day. PRAIRIEVILLE — A masked man armed with a pistol robbed a manager in the back office of Frank’s Restaurant early Monday morning, Ascension Parish sheriff’s deputies said. The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office will open a new substation and relocate an existing station in the northern part of the parish, a spokeswoman said Monday. Criterion Catalysts, which forecasts hiring 90 people at its Port Allen facility, will shift production from a California facility when the Louisiana site begins full production next year on La. 1. The sudden resignation of Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. chief executive Daniel Lee won’t affect the company’s planned $250 million Baton Rouge casino or the proposed $407 million Sugarcane Bay casino-resort in Lake Charles, a company spokeswoman said Monday. Today's funeral notices. |
