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By: Jacy Baggett

The LSU Child Care Center is now part of the seven childcare centers in Louisiana with a five-star rating from the Quality Start Rating System.

The Quality Start Rating System’s purpose is to distinguish and recognize the quality of childcare at in…

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Baton Rouge is about to become a city of bowlers. Nearly 90,000 bowlers and guests from around the world are expected to pour into the city for the 2012 United States Bowling Congress Open Championships, which kick off Feb. 11.

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While the past several summers have been colored by hot air balloons drifting above Pennington Biomedical Research Center, those balloons will be changing course after Pennington announced Wednesday it will no longer host the Baton Rouge hot air balloo…

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Many Student Government senators hope to one day represent a larger body of constituents. Recently inducted Graduate School Senator Tony Guarisco has been there and done that.

The non-traditi…

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By: The Associated Press

(AP) and – A federal program that provided temporary housing assistance to nearly 20,000 families displaced by two 2008 hurricanes has come to an end.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said 3,500 households affected by hurricanes Ike …

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By: The Associated Press

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The military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary says nearly 700 job-seeke…

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By: The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) and – A tiny amount of radiation could have escaped from a Southern California nuclear power plant after a water leak prompted operators to shut down a reactor as a precaution, but plant workers and the public were not endangered, officia…

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By: The Associated Press

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) and – The Washington state Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage, setting the stage for the state to become the seventh to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed.
The measure now heads to the House, wh…

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By: Sarah El Deeb

CAIRO (AP) and – At least 74 people were killed and hundreds injured after soccer fans rushed the field in Port Said Wednesday after an upset victory by the home team over Egypt’s top club, setting off clashes and a stampede as riot police largely failed …

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By: Robert Burns

BRUSSELS (AP) and – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta laid out the administration’s most explicit portrayal of the U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan, saying Wednesday that U.S. and other international forces in Afghanistan expect to end their combat role in 2013 …

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By: Karl Ritter

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) and – Nobel Peace Prize officials were facing a formal inquiry over accusations they have drifted away from the prize’s original selection criteria by choosing such winners as President Barack Obama, as the nomination deadline for t…

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Every day, 600 men and women protect 75 square miles in Baton Rouge from fires.

Baton Rouge Fire Department fire equipment operator Mike Leming is one of those 600, though he doesn’t think of h…

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