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Holden: Perkins-Acadian to extend to six lanes

By Mary Walker Baus
Staff Writer
November 5, 2009

Traffic flow in Baton Rouge is about to take another step toward improvement.The 22nd project within The Green Light Plan, a transportation program to improve roadway infrastructure and citizen safety...

Public speaks out about bond

By Adam Duvernay
Senior Staff Writer
November 5, 2009

East Baton Rouge Parish residents will vote next Saturday on Mayor-President Kip Holden's bond issue, a $901 million tax package a full year in the making.With only about a week left before the vote, supporters...

Scheduling spring break causes conflict

By Sarah Eddington
Contributing Writer
November 4, 2009

The placement of spring break in the University's academic calendar induced conflict at Tuesday's Faculty Senate meeting. Previously, spring break typically occurred the week of Good Friday, according...

SG to announce election results tonight – 12:00 p.m.

By Xerxes Wilson
Staff Writer
November 4, 2009

Student Government will announce the results of its fall election atthe weekly SG Senate meeting tonight. The meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in the Senate Chambers on the thirdfloor of the LSU Student...

Campus Crime Briefs- Nov. 4

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November 4, 2009

STUDENT ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGESA 21-year-old University student was arrested Wednesday, Oct. 28, on eight counts of illegal manufacture or distribution of Schedule I drugs, among other charges.LSU Police...

Controversial justice of peace resigns following refusal to marry couple

By Melinda Deslatte
The Associated Press
November 4, 2009

(AP) — A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black resigned Tuesday.Keith Bardwell, who is white, quit the post with a one-sentence...

Nov. 3 elections are not a preview for La. Senate race, expert says – 12:00 p.m.

By Nate Monroe
Contributing Writer
November 4, 2009

Just one year after President Barack Obama was elected to presidency,voters headed to the polls again Tuesday night for a mix ofgubernatorial, Congressional and various local off-year elections. The stakes...

Rape victim confronts Vitter

By Kyle Bove
Senior Staff Writer
November 4, 2009

Jennie Waldrop, animal, dairy and poultry sciences senior, was raped on Nov. 21, 2005. With the help of her attorney, a rape crisis adviser and friends, her attacker is now behind bars in Angola Prison,...

LSU alumna Jasmine Stovall recites a poem at the Sigma Gamma Rho poetry slam Tuesday in the Magnolia Room in the Union.

Sigma Gamma Rho hosts contest for student poets

By Emily Holden
Contributing Writer
November 4, 2009

Poets covered life lessons from love and hate to religion and personal struggles for a crowd of about 70 students at the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. open mic and poetry slam Tuesday night. The Gamma...

SG announces election results – 10:15 p.m.

By Xerxes Wilson
November 4, 2009

A referendum allowing the Student Government Vice President to be eligible to receive a salary passed the student body in the fall elections held Tuesday. SG Commissioner of Elections Alexis Sarver presented...

FEMA urges panel to reject Katrina claim – 11:20 a.m.

By The Associated Press
November 4, 2009

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — FEMA has urged a federal arbitration panel to reject claims that the state is owed $492 million for hurricane damages to LSU's Charity Hospital in New Orleans. It's the latest...

Raising Cane’s dog park to celebrate mascot’s birthday – 11:45 a.m.

By Lindsey Meaux
Contributing Writer
November 3, 2009

Raising Cane's Dog Park will celebrate Raising Cane II's 10th birthday at 4 p.m. today with a party open to owners and dogs alike, according to a Raising Cane's news release. The company will also unveil...