New Orleans Zephyrs fall to Nashville, again

06/27/11 Nashville, Tennessee - The Nashville Sounds scored seven unanswered runs and defeated the New Orleans Zephyrs 8-2 on Monday night at Greer Stadium. The Sounds dominance of the Zephyrs continued as Nashville has won eleven of the 15 meetings between...

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Keller @ Large: Michele Bachmann Needs To Get Her Facts Straight

06/27/11 Along with the higher profile comes closer scrutiny for new presidential candidate Michele Bachmann. Jon Keller is at large.

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Sounds Continue to Roll Over Zephyrs 8-2

06/27/11 Nashville, Tennessee - The Nashville Sounds scored seven unanswered runs and defeated the New Orleans Zephyrs 8-2 on Monday night at Greer Stadium. The Sounds dominance of the Zephyrs continued as Nashville has won eleven of the 15 meetings between the two teams.

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Sounds Defeat Zephyrs Again, 8-2

06/27/11 NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Nashville Sounds earned their fourth straight win on Monday evening, defeating New Orleans by an 8-2 margin at Greer Stadium. It marked the Sounds' third win in three games against the Zephyrs this series.

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Janis Lin Bair

06/27/11 Janis Lin Bair, 68, of Hutchinson, died June 26, 2011, at Hospice House. She was born Sept. 7, 1942, ...

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Runoff election on Saturday

06/21/11 LITTLE ELM -- Election Day for the Little Elm Town Council runoff election for Place 1 will be from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Town Hall Center, 100 West Eldorado Parkway.

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Express Blast Omaha 8-5

06/20/11 ROUND ROCK, Texas - Robinson Diaz keyed a six-run fifth inning with his first career Triple-A grand slam as the Express rallied for an 8-5 victory over the Omaha Storm Chasers in Monday night's Pacific Coast League series finale at The Dell Diamond.

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Lefko on CFL: Rookie All-Name Team

06/14/11 With the Canadian Football League about to begin pre-season camps, here is a list of one rookie from each team I hope makes a lasting impression, if only because of their names and, to a certain extent, their backgrounds. We will call this the Lefko CFL Pre-Season Rookie All-Name Team.

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NOAA predicts biggest dead zone yet for areas of Gulf

06/14/11 GULFPORT -- NOAA is predicting a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico along the coasts of Louisiana and Texas this summer larger than any on record, based on the amount of pollution coming down the Mississippi River this spring.

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Forecast Predicts Biggest Gulf Dead Zone Ever

06/14/11 Scientists predict this year's "dead zone" of low-oxygen water in the northern Gulf of Mexico will be the largest in history -- about the size of Lake Erie -- because of more runoff from the flooded Mississippi River valley.

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Local Leaders Decry Alternative UMC Plan

06/14/11 After mass protests and the demolition of homes, now some political heavyweights are raising new concerns about whether the state can payfor the $1.2 billion University Medical Center, which would replace Charity Hospital.

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Jindal's Medicaid plan questioned; Wash. lawmakers enact fee on nursing homes to increase federal match

06/07/11 Calling it a "dubious privatization venture," a Baton Rouge good-government group last week questioned Gov. Bobby Jindal's plan to turn over large chunks of the state Medicaid program to private insurers and praised the Louisiana House of Representatives for trying to slow the process.

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To Be Frank

06/07/11 Even by the standards of Washington, D.C., this is an impressive gathering of expensive suits. The crowd jamming the committee room is dark and woollen. It makes the waitstaff at Waterman Funeral Home look like the Village People. An American city has drowned this week, and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives has gathered for a ...

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Ken Burns and Tauck to Host Five-Day Jazz Event in New Orleans

06/06/11 Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and the guided travel company Tauck have come together to produce a jazz event to be held October 5-9 in New Orleans.

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UNO to transition to UL System

06/06/11 By: Michael Harb The LSU Board of Supervisors convened Friday afternoon, agreeing to aid in the transition of University of New Orleans to the University of Louisiana System. The Board moved to approve a resolution that would allow the transfer to be overseen by th...

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Tiger Dams removed from BR levees, Mississippi River levels slowly receding

06/06/11 With water levels of the Mississippi River slowly decreasing, officials began removing the orange Tiger Dams from Baton Rouge levees Monday. River levels were recorded at 41.4 feet Monday morning, keeping Baton Rouge under the precautionary flood w...

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Football: LSU earns commits at Bayou Picnic

06/06/11 By: Mark ClementsRecruits experience Cajun game day Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney weren't the only ones rocking last weekend. LSU running backs coach and recruiting coordinator Frank Wilson was rocking and rolling on the recruiting front, reeling in three more commitments for the 2012 class. East...

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Residents return to flood-damaged homes in Miss.

05/31/11 Javier Campos returned to his neighborhood for the first time in nearly a month Monday to find the serene little enclave of fishing camps and homes a putrid, mud-caked mess after the historic flooding of the Mississippi River.

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NewLink Genetics to Present Data on Its HyperAcute(R) Prostate and Melanoma Immunotherapies at the American Society of ...

05/31/11 AMES, Iowa -- NewLink Genetics Corporation today announced that data from its investigational HyperAcute Prostate cancer immunotherapy and investigational HyperAcute Melanoma immunotherapy clinical trials will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2011 Annual Meeting to be held June 3-7, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.

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National title high point of tenure

05/31/11 Late on Jan. 3, 2003, coach Jim Tressel stood on the portable awards stand in the middle of Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Ariz. His second Ohio State University team had just upset the University of Miami for college football's national championship, OSU's first since 1968.

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