In June 2010 the Unified Command moved its headquarters from the Dutch Royal Shell Conference Center in Robert, Louisiana to the building to deal with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The Chitimacha brought suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in July 1977 (complaint amended July 1979) claiming a large tract in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana.
In the last month of the war, he led a raid against Clinton near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and defeated a weak Confederate force there.
The song deals with a man asking his partner to go to Lafayette, Louisiana and change her name to something more scandalous, Mrs. Mischievous Comeaux.
Amite City, Louisiana, town in and the parish seat of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States
The Nechalacho Project is planned to consist of facilities at three separate sites: an underground mine and concentrator at Thor Lake, a hydrometallurgical plant at the Pine Point Mine site and a rare earth refinery to be located in Geismar, Louisiana.
Rebel Garnett Ryland (born April 22, 1953), an attorney in Columbia in Caldwell Parish died eighteen days before his older brother, Judge Ryland.
Bas Clas (pronounced ‘bahs clahs’) is a rock band formed in Lafayette, Louisiana in the late 1970s by brothers Donnie and Steve Picou.
Looney was born in the Yellow Pine community, located south of Sibley, Louisiana, to Julian A. Looney (1871–1958) and the former Mollie McKinney (1872–1932).
The show follows the professional life of Billy Bretherton, an expert in the field of pest control and the proprietor of Vexcon Animal and Pest Control in Benton, Louisiana, which serves the Shreveport-Bossier metropolitan area.
Blair Matthew Barbier (born February 13, 1978 in Marrero, Louisiana) is a former professional baseball player for the Chicago Cubs organization, former baseball standout for Louisiana State University and former volunteer assistant baseball coach with LSU for the 2007 season.
Ralph T. Troy, the mayor of Monroe, Louisiana, from 1972 to 1976, later relocated to North Carolina and resided in Blowing Rock.
Robert Troy Kimball was born in Orange, Texas, and was raised in nearby Vinton, Louisiana, as Vinton did not have a hospital (thus, he was born across the state line).
Industrial Park "Réjean Lafrenière" is home to the oriented strand board factory Louisiana-Pacific Canada ltd.
His father, August Breaux, later moved to north of Egan, Louisiana where he farmed.
Brenda Jefferson Foster (born 1955 - May 17, 2010 Lake Providence, Louisiana) was a witness for the prosecution in the 2008-2009 trials of her older siblings Betty Jefferson and Mose Jefferson, Betty Jefferson's daughter Angela Coleman, and Mose Jefferson's companion former City Councilwoman Renée Gill Pratt.
The S-series SUVs, so named because they were based on the Chevrolet S-10 and GMC S-15 pickup trucks, were produced in Pontiac, Michigan; Linden, New Jersey; Moraine, Ohio; Shreveport, Louisiana; and São Paulo, Brazil (the Brazilian version is based on the second-generation S-series; even though production ceased in the U.S., new Blazers are locally produced in Brazil with their own sheetmetal stampings).
Clifton Russell Richardson (born 1943), known as Clif Richardson, is a retired businessman from Greenwell Springs, Louisiana, and a Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 65 in East Baton Rouge Parish.
On August 21, 2013, Holloway filed to run in the special election for Louisiana's 5th congressional district following the resignation of Congressman Rodney Alexander.
L. Clover - Missionary Baptist pastor of New Prospect congregation in Colt prior to 1948; founder in 1952 of Louisiana Missionary Baptist Institute and Seminary in Minden, Louisiana.
Convention du Lac is a North American multi-genre convention, held annually in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and now operating under the name BayouCon, presented by the non-profit Southwest Louisiana Science Education Foundation.
They soon established their proclaimed "New Jerusalem" at Grand Ecore north of Natchitoches.
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(2) Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Andrew R. Johnson (1856–1933), Louisiana state senator from 1916–1924 and mayor of Homer in the 1910s, was born in Dadeville.
On September 16, 1814, Patterson raided the base of the pirate Jean Laffite at Barataria, Louisiana, capturing six schooners and other small craft.
Dorian continued on with his professional career playing the next 3 seasons in the Western Professional Hockey League (WPHL) with the Monroe Moccasins based out of Monroe, Louisiana until the finish of the end of the 2000 season.
Raised on the Tunica-Biloxi Indian reservation, in Marksville, Louisiana, Barbry was elected tribal chairman of the Tunica-Biloxi tribe of Louisiana in 1978 and served until his death.
The three instruments (LIGO's instruments are located near Livingston, Louisiana and on the Hanford Site, Washington in the U.S.) will collect data for more than a year, with breaks for tuning and updates.
He preached at many revivals in small towns in Louisiana such as Starks, Clarks, Eros, and Hodge.
Givers was formed in 2008 in Lafayette, Louisiana by Tiffany Lamson, Taylor Guarisco, Kirby Campbell, Josh LeBlanc, William Henderson, and Nick Stephan.
Graves Erskine was born in Columbia, Louisiana, on June 28, 1897, where he graduated from high school at age 15 as class valedictorian.
After college, Kitchens, Sr., taught school for a year in Summerfield in Claiborne Parish.
He was arrested again for attempted robbery and drunk driving near Shreveport, Louisiana eleven months later.
Hesham Tillawi is a Palestinian-American writer, TV talk show host, and political analyst living in Lafayette, Louisiana.
In spring of 1863, Scofield organized and commanded the 8th Louisiana Regiment Infantry (African Descent) at Lake Providence, Louisiana.
The grocer got in touch with Mrs. Lowe’s mother who moved Mrs. Lowe and baby to Farmerville, Louisiana.
In the April 1862 Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Richmond fought Confederate ships in the Mississippi and passed artillery batteries at Chalmette, Louisiana, leading to the capture of New Orleans.
In 1969, he completed the dissertation entitled "Carpetbagger Extraordinary: Marshall Harvey Twitchell, 1840-1905", a study of Marshall H. Twitchell, the Louisiana Republican state senator from Bienville and Red River parishes.
Lapira graduated from St. Louis Catholic High School in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
On 3 April 1864, while off Grand Ecore, Louisiana, he was shot during an ambush and died the following day.
The Kepler Lake Community have Jamestown addresses and ZIP Codes but Castor phone numbers and live within the Castor district of the Bienville Parish School Board.
After much speculation and controversy, he is recognized to have been Joe Holmes (1897, McComb, Mississippi – 1949, Sibley, Louisiana), a self-taught guitarist from Mississippi.
KLAX was launched on March 3, 1983 originally operating as an independent station, owned by the late Don Lyons and his wife, the former Rebecca Payton (1937-2012), a native of Saline in Bienville Parish.
KVCL (AM), a defunct radio station (1270 AM) formerly licensed to serve Winnfield, Louisiana, United States
A statue of St. Landry stands behind the altar of St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana.
After her municipal service, Swaine became communications director for Calumet Lubricants Company, an oil and natural gas concern which maintains a large plant in Cotton Valley in central Webster Parish.
Floyd W. Smith, Jr. (1932-2010), Mayor of Pineville, Louisiana 1966–1970, second cousin of Speedy O. Long.
Dr. Cataldie was also involved in running both the Find Family National Call Center, AKA the Family Assistance Center, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as well as the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team morgue in Carville, Louisiana.
It proceeds north and crosses from Calcasieu Parish into Jefferson Davis Parish.
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Louisiana Highway 101 (LA 101) is a state highway located in Calcasieu and Jefferson Davis Parishes.
From the west, LA 103 begins at an intersection with US 190 just west of Lawtell in western St. Landry Parish.
Near the east end of its route, LA 106 passes through an interchange with Interstate 49 (I-49) between Opelousas and Alexandria in the southwest corner of Avoyelles Parish.
Louisiana Highway 1126 (LA 1126) is a state highway that serves Jefferson Davis parish.
Louisiana Highway 3193 (LA 3193) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves St. James Parish.
Louisiana Highway 3219 (LA 3219) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves St. James Parish.
LA 454 turns abruptly to the southeast at this point and continues for another mile (1.6 km) before crossing over into Avoyelles Parish.
The road connects Iberville Parish with areas along the Atchafalya Swamp in Assumption and St. Mary Parish.
Louisiana Highway 699 (LA 699) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves Vermilion parish, extending from LA 92 and intersecting with LA 35.
From the west, LA 88 begins at an intersection with LA 89 located at a point in northwestern Iberia Parish known as Lozes.
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Louisiana Highway 88 (LA 88) is a state highway located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana.
The Louisiana Tech University Arboretum (50 acres, 20 hectares) is located on the South Campus of the Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana.
The latter enters Louisiana from Illinois via the Champ Clark Bridge, named for a former US Speaker of the House from nearby Bowling Green.
Louisiana gained its 2nd and 3rd Congressional Districts in 1823 as part of the 18th United States Congress.
In 2008, MBP partnered with Terrebonne General Medical Center and Cancer Care Specialists in Houma, creating MBP's fourth location—Mary Bird Perkins at TGMC.
He was transferred to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he headed the military district but commanded no troops directly.
Michael B. Shepherd (born 1977) is the John and Allie Fogleman Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana as well as professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at the Caskey School of Divinity.
It is also a commercially significant region, supporting the economy of New Orleans with significant shipping traffic, providing 16 to 18% of the oil supply in the U.S., and providing 16% of the fisheries harvest in the U.S., including shrimp, crabs, and crayfish.
A 20-year professor of English, she was a retired chairman of the Graduate Studies Division at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches.
However, he did not immediately attempt the capture of Port Hudson, Louisiana, the main Confederate stronghold below Vicksburg, because the garrison was reported to be large.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Nicky John Savoie (born on September 21, 1973 in Cut Off, Louisiana) is a former American football tight end who has a one year career in the National Football League.
The journal accepts articles for possible publication which focus on any part of Louisiana north of and including Alexandria.
A native of Anacoco, Louisiana, Robison studied at Baylor University and Southwestern Theological Seminary, and received a D. Phil.
In 1983, Campbell initiated a boycott of the Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, accusing the company of failing to pay fair wages to 1,500 lumber workers represented by the union.
After being open for 16 years, it was closed in 1921 and the thirteen patients were transferred to the federal leprosy hospital in Carville, Louisiana.
In the meantime, American settlers established a foothold in the area and resisted Spanish control, and the British settlers who had remained after Spanish takeover also resented Spanish rule, leading to a rebellion in 1810 and the establishment of the independent Republic of West Florida, with its capital at St. Francisville, in present-day Louisiana, on a bluff along the Mississippi River.
The Drew family was among the original 19th century settlers of the future Webster Parish, of which Minden is the parish seat.
(June 19, 1908 – July 15, 2003), was a prominent banker, civic leader, and Southern Baptist layman in Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana.
Born in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and lived until he was 5 mostly on his grandfather’s cotton plantation in nearby Campti.
Walmart has a large distribution center east of Robert on the road (US 190) to Goodbee, Louisiana.
Because the King never responded to the petition, Warren A. Perrin, a Cajun attorney and cultural activist from Erath, Louisiana, in the 1990s resurrected the petition and threatened to sue Elizabeth II (great-great-great-great-granddaughter of George III), as Queen in Right of the United Kingdom, if the British government refused to acknowledge the illegality of the Grand Dérangement.
In December 2011, the band recorded songs for their debut album over five days at Dockside Studio, a 12 acre estate on the banks of Vermilion Bayou, in Maurice, Louisiana.
Born in Oak Ridge, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, Baird was educated under private tutors and attended the Vincennes (Indiana) University.
In 1990, Mack graduated from Holden High School in Holden in Livingston Parish.
Simon Woodson Tudor (November 5, 1887—May 10, 1956) was a prominent educator, businessman, church and civic leader, and philanthropist in the central Louisiana city of Pineville in the first half of the twentieth century.
Hinton and Alcorn later participated in the fatal ambush that halted Barrow and Parker's spree on May 23, 1934 near Gibsland, Louisiana.
Landry Parish Sheriff's Office (SLPSO) is the primary law enforcement agency of St. Landry Parish.
The Southwestern Power Administration, U. S. Department of Energy, markets the power and energy generated by the hydropower plant to the Sam Rayburn Municipal Power Agency for distribution to its customers in Jasper, Liberty, and Livingston, Texas and Vinton, Louisiana.
After living in New York City, she returned to Louisiana in 2001 and currently lives and works in Lafayette, Louisiana.
In 1811 their chief, Awahakei, died during a visit to Americans in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Due to illness in the family, he went back to Jackson and ventured to Alexandria, Louisiana.
Filmed in Clinton, Louisiana, the film's cast was composed mostly of former Actors Studio students, whom Ritt met while he was an assistant teacher to Elia Kazan.
One of Drew's brothers, Richard Maxwell Drew, held several public offices in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, including that of state representative from 1848 until his death in 1850 at the age of twenty-eight.
He favored (though he could not vote in the primary at the time) John Willard "Jack" Montgomery, a Springhill native and Minden lawyer who was challenging two-term State Senator Harold Montgomery of Doyline, also in Webster Parish.
Tony Canzoneri (November 6, 1908 – December 9, 1959 in Slidell, Louisiana) was an American professional boxer.
During the 1980s and 1990s, the top floors held the headquarters of Louisiana-Pacific.
Matt Lowe (January 1, 1872–March 4, 1955) was a merchant and public official in the city of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.
The Republic of West Florida Historical Museum is located in Jackson run by the Republic of West Florida Historical Association.
Christopher Columbus Nash, a Confederate veteran, former prisoner of war at Johnson's Island in Ohio, and the former sheriff of Grant Parish, led companies of white militias at Colfax, the seat of Grant Parish, and killed tens of blacks in the Colfax Massacre.
It is a repeater of KJMJ 580 kHz in Alexandria, Louisiana, the originating English-language station of Radio Maria USA.
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On January 9, 2004, Ted Waitt, CEO of Gateway Computers offered the NCAA $31 million for a national championship game between USC and Louisiana State.
John Bear states that Adam Smith University has been located in Hawaii, Louisiana, Montana, and South Dakota in the past.
Archbishop Rummel High School, Roman Catholic secondary school Metairie, Louisiana
The Department No. 2 (Western Department) was created on June 25, 1861, under the command of Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, and had military jurisdiction and control over parts of Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Davlin graduated from the Episcopal School of Acadiana in Cade, Louisiana and attributed his independent thinking to the amazing teachers at that institution.
Hagerman succeeded Karen Elliot in 1981 and recorded an overall record of 40-36 in three seasons as head coach of the Lady Tigers, including the Louisiana AIAW Championship in 1981.
More recently, in 2008, Hurricanes Gustav and Ike have left their mark on Louisiana's Coastal Wetlands.
In 1987 in Edwards v. Aguillard the Supreme Court heard a case concerning a Louisiana Law that required "creation science" be taught on an equal basis with evolution in public schools.
Charles and Sam Wyly, businessmen who endowed Wyly Tower of Learning at Louisiana Tech.
Edward Young Clarke was an advertising executive from Louisiana and the Imperial Wizard pro tempore of the Ku Klux Klan who devised the "kluxing" system of payments to the hierarchy within the Klan.
Her father was the warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary until he was dismissed in a dispute with then Governor Huey P. Long, Jr. Moore spent her early years growing up at the manager's residence when the penitentiary was in Baton Rouge, instead of the present site at rural Angola in West Feliciana Parish near St. Francisville.
He was a member of the American Library Association, the Modern Language Association, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Louisiana Historical Association, the Louisiana Chess Association, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Beta Phi Mu, Phi Kappa Rho, and Kappa Delta Pi.
Also running was a second Republican, Country music singer Sammy Kershaw of Abbeville, the seat of Vermilion Parish in southwestern Louisiana, who drew 30 percent of the ballots.
For example, Charles T. Howard of the Louisiana State Lottery Company actively lobbied state legislators and the governor of Louisiana for the purpose of getting a license to sell lottery tickets.
In 1864, he fought at both Mansfield and Pleasant Hill in De Soto Parish and with General Hamilton P. Bee at Monett's Ferry in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
Wilson represented Louisiana in the Miss America 2007 pageant broadcast live from the Theatre for the Performing Arts on the Las Vegas Strip on 29 January 2007 but did not win any preliminary awards or place in the final competition.
KLWB-FM, a radio station (103.7 FM) licensed to Opelousas, Louisiana, United States
KSHV-TV, a television station (channel 45 analog/44 digital) licensed to Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
KXOR-FM, a radio station (106.3 FM) licensed to Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States
In 1978, Knox and then Louisiana Secretary of State James H. "Jim" Brown of Ferriday in Concordia Parish, running as Democrats, unsuccessfully challenged the reelection of freshman Democratic U.S. Representative Jerry Huckaby.
Louis Varney was the son of Alphonse Varney, a French conductor at the Bouffes-Parisiens and at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, he was also invited to conduct the "French Opera Season" abroad, notably in New Orleans, Louisiana, and this is how Louis came to be born there in 1844.
The Mayor of Baton Rouge, Mayor-President Kip Holden, declared March 20, 2009 to be "Louisiana Culinary Institute Day," and awarded members of the team the titles of "Honorary Mayor-Presidents" of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish.
Longville, at the height of the logging boom, was the site of one of the largest sawmills in Louisiana founded by Robert A. Long.
Louisiana Highway 1112 (LA 1112) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves Acadia Parish.
Louisiana Highway 3132 (LA 3132) is a state highway in Shreveport, Louisiana, named the "Terry Bradshaw Passway" and more commonly known as the Inner Loop Expressway.
Louisiana Highway 697 (LA 697) is a state highway that serves Vermilion parish.
Louisiana Highway 700 is a state highway that serves Vermilion and Lafayette parishes.
Hayes played opposite Keith Andes in the role of Dorothy Maguire Grevemberg, wife of crusading Louisiana State Police superintendent Francis Grevemberg, in the film Damn Citizen (1958).
Delta is headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia and owns schools in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana and Georgia.
As well as recovering the Space Shuttle SRB's Freedom Star has since 1998 been used to tow the Space Shuttle external fuel tanks from their assembly plant at Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
It lived in the Washington, D.C. area about 110 million years ago, when the area resembled modern southern Louisiana.
He retired in 1972, but then was called to serve as Bishop of the Houston Episcopal Area for three years, and for one additional year in Louisiana.
The species has been introduced as far west as Louisiana and West Texas.
In Louisiana, Governor Ruffin Pleasant in 1917 signed legislation sponsored by freshman State Senator Norris C. Williamson of East Carroll Parish to authorize state funding to eradicate the cattle tick.
In the summer of 2008, Zussman worked in Washington, D.C. as a television reporter for KTAL in Shreveport, Louisiana covering the Senate race between John Kennedy and incumbent Mary Landrieu.
Robert C. Snyder (1919–2011), professor of English at Louisiana Tech University
Valeria of Milan, often known as St Valerie, venerated in Thibodaux, Louisiana
Sam enlisted in Col. Xavier Debray's regiment on September 18, 1861, and served until the end of the American Civil War on the coast of Texas and in Louisiana.
Sipprelle was criticized later in January for his contribution to the congressional campaigns of Blue Dog Democrats Allen Boyd of Florida, Charlie Melancon of Louisiana, Heath Shuler of North Carolina, Baron Hill of Indiana, and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin of South Dakota.
By August 2009, they had become abundant in the Mississippi River watershed from Louisiana to South Dakota and Illinois, and had grown close to invading the Great Lakes via the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
She placed first runner-up in the nationally televised pageant, which was won by Shelley Hennig of Louisiana.
Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Jeb Bush of Florida, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and John Thune of South Dakota all succeeded in leading polls in their home states at some point in 2011, although only Pawlenty actually launched a campaign.
Pupils came to him from nine to ten parishes in Louisiana and from several counties in East Texas.
Thomas D. "Tommy" Wright (born 1956), former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
Hurricane Rita - destructive hurricane striking Texas and Louisiana
Early in 1964, the deGravelles supported Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr., an oilman from Shreveport in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana, for the governorship.
Additionally, he served as a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Judge Morey Leonard Sear, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana.