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LSU curator gets $520,000 to study family tree of cichlids

By The Associated Press
November 3, 2009

(AP) — The LSU Museum of Natural Sciences' top fish specialist has won a half-million-dollar grant to study the family tree of fish called heroine cichlids.Ichthyology curator Prosanta Chakrabarty...

Twelve day care center licenses revoked by Social Services

By The Associated Press
November 3, 2009

(AP) — Twelve day care centers have lost their state operating licenses because of safety concerns, the state Department of Social Services announced Tuesday, as it wrapped up a new round of inspections.The...

Detainees in NYC post- Sept. 11 reach $1.26M settlement

By The Associated Press
November 3, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) — Five immigrant men who were detained in roundups in New York and eventually deported following the Sept. 11 attacks have reached a $1.26 million settlement with the U.S. government.The...

DC sniper asks Supreme Court to block execution

By The Associated Press
November 3, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 dead, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to stop his execution.The...

6 deaths last week bring La swine flu toll to 30 – 11:15 a.m.

By The Associated Press
November 3, 2009

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The state Department of Health and Hospitals says Louisiana's swine flu death toll is now at 30, with six deaths related to the virus in the past week. Four — two boys...

Video competition entries aim to solve global issues

By Kyle Bove
Senior Staff Writer
November 3, 2009

One YouTube video can change the world. That's the concept Stanford University's 2009 Global Innovation Tournament is operating under — and the E.J. Ourso College of Business is challenging the University...

Obama coaxes states to change with school stimulus dollars

By The Associated Press
November 3, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — Using stimulus dollars as bait, President Barack Obama is coaxing states to rewrite education laws and cut deals with unions as they compete for $5 billion in school reform grants,...

Pope welcomes community-wide Anglican conversion

By Steven Powell
Contributing Writer
November 3, 2009

After centuries of conflict, some members of the Catholic and Anglican Churches will soon get the change they are seeking. But the change will not come on a local level.Pope Benedict XVI announced last...

LSU student jailed on rape counts – 11:00 a.m.

By The Associated Press
November 3, 2009

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police say an LSU transfer student from the United Kingdom has been accused of repeatedly raping a woman on campus over the weekend. An affidavit of probable cause says 20-year-old...

LSU curator gets $520,000 to study cichlids – 11:05 a.m.

By The Associated Press
November 3, 2009

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The LSU Museum of Natural Sciences' top fish specialist has won a half-million-dollar grant to study the family tree of fish called heroine cichlids (SIK'-lids). Ichthyology...

Lawyer: Jindal ‘crippled’ La. ethics – 10:45 a.m.

By The Associated Press
November 3, 2009

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's ethics system has been "crippled" as a result of legal changes made during Gov. Bobby Jindal's 2008 special session on ethics, the chairman of the Louisiana Board...

Six deaths last week bring H1N1 toll to 30; more vaccines arriving

By The Associated Press
November 3, 2009

(AP) — The state Department of Health and Hospitals says Louisiana's swine flu death toll is now at 30, with six deaths related to the virus in the past week.Four — two boys and two women —...