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St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff Wayne Jones made the announcement last week that one of the major players in the parish’s drug trade, Anthony Belvin, had been arrested ... busted in the act of selling his illicit goods.
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Prevention is widely acknowledged to be a key part of reducing the nation's astronomical health care costs.
Could it be? 40 years since Apollo 11?
Their names were household words for years — Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr. — so it is now fitting that NASA reminds us of them as part of the 40th anniversary of man’s first steps on the moon.
Having won the blessing of a federal judge, a new version of General Motors is expected to emerge from bankruptcy with fewer brands, dealerships and debts. Those cost-cutting measures will certainly help the reorganized company; in fact, without them, GM may have been unsalvageable. But they don't guarantee success either. And unless the company makes even more fundamental changes in the way it does business, it may not be able to halt its sales slide. ...— Los Angeles TimesThe downsizing will help GM deliver more car for the money. Another factor in the company's troubles, however, has been its slow response to changes in consumer demand. Car and truck designs fall in and out of favor like fashions, and the old GM developed a reputation for being the last to embrace a trend. ...
How do you forget a child is in the back seat?
Three times this year in South Louisiana, we’ve heard horrific accounts of children dying after being left in a vehicle.
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GM emerges from bankruptcy;
Taxpayers staggering under debt
GM has emerged from the pain of bankruptcy after only 40 days with the new CEO, Fritz Henderson, a second generation GM man, touting the miraculous rebirth. The new General Motors will not play ball like the old, sluggish giant, said the federally anointed CEO. The 2.0 version will do its best to listen and be more responsive to the general public.
These days, weird news is pretty commonplace
John Moseley, my friend and editor of The Herald in Big Spring, Texas, always had a penchant for finding some of the strangest news stories. I always kidded him about it, but I always read them.
Remembering the bike jump and the hockey net that saved me
Norman Rapp's dad saved my life that day.
It's been a tough couple of weeks for notables
It’s been a rough 18 or so days for folks who enjoyed some measure of notoriety.
The secret is out: Roe v. Wade and connection to eugenics
The cat's out of the bag. Finally, something that we long suspected but was never acknowledged was confirmed by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a New York Times Magazine interview: the dirty connection between the Roe v. Wade abortion decision and eugenics.
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