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Former presidential nominee Jon Huntsman abandons campaign

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January 16, 2012

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Jon Huntsman abandoned his once-promising campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday and endorsed Mitt Romney as the man "best equipped to defeat Barack...

Caddo Parish may consider ban on wearing pajamas in public

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January 16, 2012

SHREVEPORT (AP) — Public pajamary might get you busted in Caddo Parish if a parish commissioner has his way. The Times reported that Commissioner Michael Williams said an incident at a local Walmart...

Jindal fundraising for Rick Perry presidential bid

By The Associated Press
December 5, 2011

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal headed to Texas to attend fundraisers for Rick Perry's bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Jindal's office says the governor traveled Tuesday...

Trial opens for cops charged in Katrina shooting

By The Associated Press
December 5, 2011

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans police officer lied under oath to conceal that he shot a man in the back and left him to die outside the city's convention center in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath,...

President Obama addresses gestures while speaking at Osawatomie High School in Osawatomie, Kansas, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. Obama was in Kansas to deliver a major speech on the economy.

Obama embracing Roosevelt’s middle-class appeal

By The Associated Press
December 5, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is channeling President Theodore Roosevelt, embracing a mantle of economic fairness for the nation's middle class Tuesday that draws parallels to the progressive...

Cops clear Occupy New Orleans camp; judge unhappy

By The Associated Press
December 5, 2011

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge in New Orleans says he isn't happy about the city's early morning eviction of protesters and homeless people from the site where they had been camped since early...

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2011 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks at Tommy's Ham House in Greenville , S.C. For three decades, the Republican who won South Carolina's presidential primary has also won the GOP nomination. That strong record helps explain why Gingrich is working more aggressively than any of his competitors to organize activists and volunteers ahead of the Jan. 21 primary.

Gingrich bets on unconventional primary strategy

By The Associated Press
December 4, 2011

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Back from the political dead, Newt Gingrich has momentum on his side just a month before the first voting in the GOP nomination fight. But he has never fully rebuilt his organization...

Japanese prime minister wants status of royal brides studied

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December 1, 2011

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's prime minister said Thursday the government should study the possibility of allowing women in the royal family to keep their imperial status after marriage. Japanese law requires...

Clinton meets former prisoner Suu Kyi, lays down reform markers

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December 1, 2011

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton dined Thursday with former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, forcefully underscoring a U.S. challenge to Myanmar's leaders on her historic visit:...

Men accused of having dogs attack hog in backyard

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December 1, 2011

SLIDELL (AP) — Three Slidell residents apparently put a hog they had captured in a man's backyard to see if three dogs would attack it. Police say 41-year-old Dewayne Menefee claimed his three mastiffs...

Biologists find rare albino among shy Brazil dolphins

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December 1, 2011

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian biologists have found an extremely rare example of an albino dolphin among an endangered species that lives off the southern coast of South America. The research group,...

Louisiana taxpayers owed $1.3M in undelivered tax refunds

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December 1, 2011

(AP) — Louisiana taxpayers are owed $1.3 million in undelivered tax refunds. The Internal Revenue Service is looking to return the money to the nearly 1,400 Louisiana taxpayers who are due refund...