Louisiana

Drive to a foreign country for the weekend and Nancy Dunn, the way the car broke down in a small town in Louisiana.

When they went to Louisiana, making a film from what the children produced had not been part of their plan.

Marine reef ecologist Scott Porter works to remove oil from his hands in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, Louisiana.

You know, if life was fair, that bus would have been driven by an unemployed Louisiana shrimp boat operator.

That it is just a verbal issue. Unfortunately, in the case of the Louisiana decision, they banned both civil unions and homosexual marriage.

Workers attempt to secure an oil boom into place in an effort to protect the coast line from the massive oil spill near Hopedale, Louisiana.

The Coast Guard said it had sent investigators to confirm whether crude oil had begun to wash up on parts of the Louisiana shoreline.

Inside of a refrigerator deserted by the side of the road. Food already went bad, mold is all over the place. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

The method has already been used to regenerate mangrove forest in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina.

Many coastal birds are now getting ready to pair bond, court, and nest, noted the Louisiana Coastal Initiative's Driscoll.

My favourite job was probably as a bartender in Louisiana in the middle of Mardi Gras. I got to meet so many great people.

He gave up politics for a business career that led him to the presidency of Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Company, our largest natural gas utility.

Only a year ago, the worst oil spill in American history slathered millions of gallons of oil across Louisiana's coast.

Saggy pants: Boys who think saggy pants are a fashion statement are likely to end up in prison in one Louisiana town.

He said that he had been shuttling back and forth between Texas and Louisiana for the past few years.

The Baton Rouge, Louisiana, mother of three wasn't trying to make a political statement.

Jefferson disliked the idea: purchasing Louisiana from France would imply that France had a right to be in Louisiana.

At dockside, the value of shrimp, oysters and fish brought in to Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi totals less than $400 million a year.

The state that is now Louisiana has been a territory of France, Spain, and Great Britain, and was even briefly an independent country!

Louisiana authorities say a woman recruited for a Ku Klux Klan initiation ritual was shot and killed after she tried to back out .

In 1804 Congress gave a territorial organization to that part of it which now constitutes the State of Louisiana.

The state legislature in the U. S. state of Louisiana has passed a law adding extra time for committing a crime with an online Map.

As a young boy, I grew up in a tin-roofed shack in Summerfield, Louisiana.

Georgia is usually the biggest pecan producer. Other top states include Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

It was at the end of the meeting in Louisiana yesterday that ten-year-old Terence Scott asked his question.

It was down in Louisiana, Just about a mile from Texarkana, In them old cotton fields back home.

Several hundred dead red-winged black birds, starlings, sparrows, and grackles have now turned up in Louisiana near Baton Rouge.

Collisions with power lines seem to have killed roughly 500 blackbirds and starlings in Louisiana on Tuesday.

Images of New Orleans spread around the world, but east of the Louisiana border, much of the Mississippi coast was also wiped out.

His parents, both classical musicians, moved a year later to Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Kushner spent his childhood there.

Louisiana state law provides a measly compensation of $15, 000 a year, up to a maximum of $150, 000.

Jefferson questioned the constitutionality of his own Louisiana Purchase.

In Louisiana, it is illegal to rob a bank and then shoot at the bank teller with a water pistol.

Known as a "dead zone" , this vast oxygen-depleted area extends along the coast between Louisiana and Texas.

The US carmaker announced that it would halt output from Monday at an assembly plant in Louisiana due to a shortage of parts from Japan.

Otherwise, Louisiana would be an easy prey for the British or even for the Americans.

Hurricane Gustav pushed Louisiana's congressional elections back by a month, making them the last ones to be held in the country.

One church down in Louisiana was recently ordered to stop giving out water because it did not have a government permit.

At least two people were killed. The most extensive damage was in Louisiana's Iberia Parish where a tornado reportedly touched down.

Republican governors in South Carolina, Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas have made a show of refusing some of the stimulus money.

Oil reached the coastline late Thursday near the mouth of the Mississippi River in the southern state of Louisiana.

For the last threemonths, Philip has worked in the Louisiana Swamp and Jaguar Jungle areas of thepark one day a week.

The mother of Augustine was a Huguenot French lady, whose family had emigrate to Louisiana during the days of its early settlement.

American alligators are found in freshwater coastal wetlands across the southeastern United States, from Louisiana to the Carolinas.

Stephen Moret, the head of Louisiana Economic Development, says that all this will change.

Last weekend, a set of boats struck part of a bridge crossing the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana's capital.

My hometown is down in the southern state of Louisiana, which is about a mile from Texarkana.

Every year thousands of bands and fans travel to the southern state of Louisiana for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

The Louisiana Purchase would prove to be one of the most profitable real estate transactions ever made.

The only Southern state to lose was Louisiana , which shed one seat , a result of the exodus following Hurricane Katrina .

Louisiana has a rich history with many different cultures playing a part. Do you know who some of those people were?

Ms. Fisher is now a senior at Louisiana State University. Through her lawyers, she declined to be interviewed.

The first field tests took place in 2004 at Louisiana State University in the United States.

The high winds and waves sloshed oily water over the miles of containment boom that have been strung around Louisiana's fragile coastline.

Louisiana court has overturned the federal moratorium on deepwater drilling, and the state is keen to see the industry relaunched.

A military hero, he later amassed substantial land and slave holdings of his own in Louisiana.

He helped draft New York's first constitution, and served as minister to France at the time of the Louisiana Purchase.

Bray is chief of the Clinical Obesity Center at Louisiana State University and a spokesman for the Endocrine Society.

Dolphins surface in Breton Sound not far from the Louisiana coast on May 1, as gas wells loom farther out in the Gulf of Mexico.

When the office employee of the garage was writing up the bill, she noticed my Louisiana license plate.

Prosecutors say the contact, Tai Shen Kuo of New Orleans, Louisiana, turned the information over to a Chinese national, Yu Xin Kang.

Tens of thousands of residents are evacuating parts of Texas and Louisiana as Hurricane Rita barrels toward land.

Humberto is expected to dump up to 25 centimeters of rain over the coast of Texas and Louisiana Thursday.

President Barack Obama has declared a state of emergency in Louisiana, as Tropical Storm Isaac threatens to hit the US.

Officials now expected the oil sheen to reach the Louisiana coast the next day.

He'd been chased off of a riverboat in Louisiana and watched a teammate kicked out of a Las Vegas casino.

One of the spill's greatest environmental threats is to Louisiana's wetlands, scientists believe.

Only 10 years earlier, Duhon had been a high-school student in Louisiana.

I came from Alabama, With my banjo on my knee, I'm going to Louisiana, My true love for to see.

Boats are seen spraying water on an oil and gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana.

And so the federal government is working with the Louisiana Recovery Authority to help people get back in their homes.

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson negotiated the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France, doubling the size of the United States.

But in Montgomery, Louisiana, the archivist called him a "Harvard nigger" to his face.

Mitchell Deslatte walked into a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, hotel and asked the clerk for a room.

Eight months later, Hurricane Katrina swept away parts of Louisiana along with much of the US's scepticism for climate change.

The worst of the drought is spread across Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, and Louisiana.

State governments have followed suit; Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have all closed large swathes as well.

The USS New York was named at a ceremony in Louisiana, watched by thousands of people, including relatives of some of the victims.

A park ranger's voice softens as he talks of a boyhood creek in Louisiana where he swam and fished.

I grew up in Lakeland, Louisiana, one of 12 children.

You get the sense, though, that if Stern wants the team back in Louisiana, he will find enough support on the board to make it happen.

One of the more unusual commercial ventures feeling the effects of the disaster is Louisiana's alligator-farming industry.

But it needs to be kept away from the coasts, particularly the fragile, fertile Louisiana marshes.

General Motors has suspended production at a factory in Louisiana due to a shortage of Japanese parts.

Going to college was a rare privilege for a kid from Lakeland, Louisiana.

Coastal stretches of south-east Louisiana, particularly areas outside levee protection, are the main concern.

Nationally, the loss of space jobs in Florida, California, Louisiana, Texas, Utah, and other states could approach that of Kennedy.

NOAA issued a precautionary closure of the federal waters off the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and part of Florida for 10 days.

ENVIRONMENTALISM is a hard corner to fight in Louisiana, a state where oil, gas and chemical companies are big in the economy and politics.

The Spanish ruler was forced to turn over Louisiana to Napoleon through a secret treaty in 1800.

One of his daughters, Mary, is Louisiana's senior senator.

A legend of a huge creature, neither man nor beast, which lives in the deep cypress shadows of the Louisiana bayou .

Destroyed truck by the side of the road. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Oil booms are deployed in a marsh off the coast of Louisiana to protect the fragile wetlands from the BP oil spill.

The Louisiana coastline, with its rich shrimp and oyster beds, is the most threatened by the spill.

And President Bush welcomed the Louisiana State University football team to the White House.

Partly, this is because Mr Schwarzenegger did not dither like Louisiana's governor, Kathleen Blanco, did.

On September 10, thousands of fish and a dead whale were found dead in the west Mississippi River, Louisiana, US.

Those heading for Mexico go first for the Louisiana-Mississippi area , then fly across the Gulf of Mexico into Texas .

Birds settle into water surrounded by oil-containment booms off the coast of Breton Sound Island, near Louisiana, on Thursday.

They also cut out the lungs of alligators that had died on a Louisiana wildlife refuge and pumped air through the lungs.

Governor Bobby Jindal also declared a state of emergency in Louisiana.

He met my mother at Tri-State Hospital in Shreveport , Louisiana, in 1943, when she was training to be a nurse.

'We have a large district, the largest in Louisiana, ' he said. 'We didn't want to lease a bicycle for him to ride on.

Founded in 1718, it became the capital of a French colony in 1722 and passed to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.

Some two weeks after the initial accident, oil has begun to wash up on the frail marshes and rich oyster beds that line Louisiana's shores.

Louisiana, announced that the Gulf of Mexico crude oil has penetrated the interior of the state, causing inland lake pollution.

Port Arthur, Texas and Lake Charles and Cameron, Louisiana, all places devastated by Rita two years ago, are facing similar problems.

They are the first group to be released into an area near where they were rescued, about 40 miles southwest of Grand Isle, Louisiana.

In 1803 Jefferson appointed Lewis commander of an expedition to explore the American territory newly acquired in the Louisiana Purchase.

Crews try to clean an island covered in oil in the southern portion of East Bay, off the coast of Louisiana.

In Louisiana, a woman lies buried beneath a grove of 150-year-old oak trees in the cemetery of an Episcopal church.

Gradually and pervasively oozing ashore, coating everything in its path, leaked oil has started fouling Louisiana wetlands.

The last undisputed report of an ivory-billed woodpecker in continental North America was in Louisiana in 1944.

It then appears to be on track for the Gulf Coast, including Louisiana where Hurricane Katrina struck three years ago.

For people living in Louisiana's Gulf Coast, waiting for Gustav to bear down on them has been pretty alarming.

President Bush has already declared a federal disaster in large parts of Texas and neighboring Louisiana.

George Bush could not be located, two Louisiana officials told Time, so she asked for chief of staff Andrew Card, who was also unavailable.

The Recovery School District is a special statewide school district administered by the Louisiana Department of Education.

It has built smaller versions of the cluster in Belgium, Texas, Louisiana, Malaysia and China.

1803 - In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer Louisiana Territory to a French representative.

Situated in the Deep South, Louisiana, the "Pelican State, " has a colorful history and was named in honor of King Louis XIV.

Old man sitting on his front porch in Louisiana watching the sunrise sees the neighbor's kid walk by carrying something big under his arm.

New exploration and drilling technologies have unlocked enormous amounts of gas in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

In the case of Poverty Point, in northeastern Louisiana, no one knows for sure.

One of the performers is the Heritage Hall Jazz Band from New Orleans, Louisiana.

The sun sets over a bayou near Larose, Louisiana, on July 24, 2010, as tropical storm Bonnie roils towards land.

The company, which hired a lobbyist this month, is building a $400 million plant in Louisiana.

As longer days and warmer weather appear, south Louisiana residents should be reminded to avoid getting sunburned.

But Florida or Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, those states maybe they'll never come around to that.

Oil floats on the surface about 12 miles from the Louisiana marshes.

The only state in the sunbelt to lose a seat is Louisiana, which has suffered two hurricanes.

Environmental damage from the oil spill is spreading across the Louisiana coastline.

Like every state, Louisiana is touting alternative-energy projects, in its case nuclear manufacturing.

I'm going to Louisiana, my true love for to see.

That part of Louisiana contains some 40 percent of the nation's wetlands and is spawning grounds for countless fish and birds.

No sheriff in Louisiana or spurned widow could ever have tracked him to the Lorelei.

IS POKER "a gambling game, pure and simple" , as a judge in Louisiana called it in a much-cited 1910 judgment?

Louisiana has a heritage of many cultures, nationalities and ethnic groups, including Cajuns and Creoles.

In 1800 Louisiana was secretly returned to Napoleon's France, and by 1803 the French emperor had negotiated its sale to the United States.

Several states, including Virginia, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, North Carolina and Ohio, have geriatric prisons or wards.

He heard the name used by men who worked at a racetrack in New Orleans, Louisiana.

It lives on in the 8-year-old boy in Louisiana, who just sent me his allowance and asked if I would give it to the people of Haiti.

This potentially fatal disease was most often detected in dogs from Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas and South Carolina.

Louisiana police say they'll investigate the cause of the woman seen in this police department video.

Flying down to Louisiana on May 2nd, Mr Obama described the spill as "a massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster" .

Crude has washed up on 100 miles of Louisiana shoreline , threatening the livelihood of tens of thousands of fishermen and shrimpers .

The Senate voted to remove a federal judge from the bench in Louisiana, finding him guilty on a variety of corruption charges.

Rhett Allain is associate professor of physics at Southeastern Louisiana University. He enjoys teaching and talking about physics.

Louisiana's governor flatly refuses to create an exchange. In Montana a Democratic governor faces an obstinate Republican legislature.

The legal system of every state is based on the common law, except Louisiana (which is based on the French civil code).

New Orleans is the site of the Louisiana Superdome, one of the world's largest sports arenas.

InMinnesota, Louisiana, California, Florida, Illinois, New York and partsof Iowa, fried wontons are often filled with cream cheese.

The survey was conducted between July and October 2010 by an environmental nonprofit called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade.

She was sent to the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, in St. Gabriel, and became Prisoner 80367.

Places like Louisiana, Canada and New York offer 10% to 25% tax breaks on the amount of a film's budget spent instate.

Now, Louisiana biochemists say that alligator blood may hold the key to fighting infections. In people.

Guinness World Records says the previous record holder for a bridge over water is the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana.

Louisiana: Mystery Cases is a modern full 3D adventure game with a stylish environment and catchy storyline.

A city of southeast Louisiana between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain.

The rig, about 41 miles off the Louisiana coast, is owned and operated by Transocean Ltd. and contracted to British oil major BP PLC.

The Louisiana coastline is a complex network of rivers, bays, marsh and bayou that sustains abundant and diverse plant and animal life.

As the oil seeps into Louisiana's fragile wetlands, it is apparent that the damage will last for years to come.

Jean Lafitte who lived off of the coast of Louisiana in a sheltered Bay named Barataria Bay.

In the 1890s, anti-lottery legislation shuts down the last one, the Louisiana Lottery.

That answer comes from biological oceanographer Nancy Rabalais of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.

One of them is found at the Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge , Louisiana.

It lists the top 10 states for well-being as Utah, Louisiana, Colorado, Minnesota, Wyoming, Hawaii, Arizona, Delaware, Florida and Nevada.

Rescue workers carefully clean an oil-soaked northern gannet bird at a facility in Fort Jackson, Louisiana.

In July 2007 a woman was crossing a road in Louisiana when large clumps of tangled worms dropped from above.

I'm going to Louisiana thereMy true love for to see.

However, in every state but Louisiana, sales of goods are governed by a statute, Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Louisiana fishermen in Venice docked their boats this afternoon, knowing waters could be closed for a long, long time.

He also serves as associate professor of dermatologic surgery at Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans.

While Blanco has come under fire, Republicans and Democrats in Louisiana's congressional delegation have stood behind her.

Sunday's order extended from the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana east to waters of Pensacola Bay in Florida.

The drink has its origins in Louisiana, where it was recently made the official cocktail of New Orleans.

It began on April 20th with a fire and an explosion on an exploratory rig 40 miles (65km) from the Louisiana coast.

As a young boy, I grew up with eight siblings in a tin-roofed shack[1] in Summerfield, Louisiana.

The "yellow fever" has swept the low-lying areas of Louisiana, and the local experts are thoroughly confused about the cause.

French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns.

Two similar cases--one in Illinois and another in Louisiana--were also filed against the companies in August.

Other Rounder artists include groups that perform the music of the Creole and Cajun cultures of Louisiana.

In Louisiana, engineers are working to keep floodwaters away from two big cities -- New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

Voters in the US state of Louisiana have elected the first Vietnamese-American member of Congress.

In Louisiana, we have pre-positioned supplies in advance of this year's hurricane season.

What country sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States?

Environmental officials and BP worked furiously to contain a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that threatened the coast of Louisiana.

The August 29 hurricane severely damaged parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Today, the United States, mainly in the Indy Indians Louisiana State, North Carolina State and other U. S. Na-gun.

go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities.

Working in that community in New Orleans soon led me to Louisiana's death row.

Then, through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the acquisition of Florida in 1819, the United States more than doubled in size .

The Julia, Erato, and upper Poydras wharves were developed as the site of the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition.

And Louisiana is already losing wetland: an area about the size of a football field every 30 minutes.

There is a circular plate in the gulf offshore of Louisiana and this puppy is going to move.

At the peak of the boom a few years ago, Louisiana had more cash than it knew what to do with.

Oil surrounds parts of Louisiana's Chandeleur Islands.

A move to Miami would see Spears and her two young sons closer to her family in Louisiana.

Ms Bongiorni, a journalist who lives in Louisiana, tells us that she does not consider the Chinese her enemies.

Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, meanwhile, is a right-wing moralist known for having hired prostitutes.

Louisiana's coastline features some important and vulnerable habitats and nature reserves.

The tallies include counts for five states: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

Petrohawk Energy Corp focuses their oil &gas operation on the shale rocks in the Southeastern states of Texas and Louisiana.

More than 8 inches of rain have fallen in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.

Forecasters have issued tropical storm warning from east of High Island, Texas to neighboring Louisiana.

A dead turtle floats on a pool of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana Monday, June, 7, 2010.

In the southern state of Louisiana, people enjoy spicy Cajun and Creole foods.

From Alaska to Louisiana, track your prey in their natural habitats and adapt your hunting method to the species in your crosshairs.

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For example, southern California has many Mexican restaurants, and Louisiana has a strong Creole accent to its food.

Louisiana is also one of the world's largest producers of what some call "the most important fish you've never heard of" - menhaden.

Brown Pelicans fly past booms stained by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill at Cat Island, Louisiana.

Boren, Lynda S. and Sara deSaussure Davis (eds. ), Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1992.

When the South seceded, Sherman--West Point, 1840--was superintendent of a military college that is now Louisiana State University.

Environmental factors tending to favor longevity are abundant in Hawaii and less numerous in Louisiana.

Almost five years later, signs of Hurricane Katrina are still evident in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.

However, the treaty was kept secret, and Louisiana remained under Spanish control until a transfer of power to France.

"The implication of course is they're asking about whether it's from the Gulf or whether it's Louisiana seafood, " Hecht says.

The states of Louisiana, Ohio, and Oklahoma , and the Northern Arapaho Tribe, joined the federal government in the agreement.

Vacant seats in California and Mississippi and two seats in Louisiana will be filled through special elections in the coming months.

A hurricane watch stretches from southeastern Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.

THE oil will come ashore for weeks yet, seeping into the Louisiana marshes and washing up on Alabama beaches.

Still, even critics in Louisiana applauded its release and supported the report's recommendations.

Already in the US, the environment movement is gathering support again as oil-drenched birds wash up on Louisiana beaches.

It sounds like those swampy places in Florida, in Georgia, in Alabama, in Mississippi and all those places, Louisiana.

The government estimates that between 76 million and 167 million liters of crude have poured into the waters off the state of Louisiana.

In 1927, Hurston began traveling around with a camera to explore the folk tales of Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Hurricane Gustav is quickly losing its punch after plowing through south Louisiana's fishing and oil industry.

It fell in thousands of pieces along a swath ten miles wide and 300 miles long, across East Texas and into Louisiana.

Other states that also produce major amounts of rice include Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

In 1938, the Superior Oil company constructed the first offshore oil platform off the Gulf Coast of Louisiana.

That was when a Louisiana newspaper writer began calling New Orleans by this name.

Hermit crabs struggle to cross a patch of oil on a barrier island near East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana.

A research ship was burning off the coast of Louisiana and called for help.

In addition to the federal closure, Louisiana closed vulnerable fisheries in state waters -- within three miles of the coast.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, the son of Indian immigrants, is a rising star in the party.

Delacroix is the last stop in Louisiana's St. Bernard parish before the Gulf of Mexico begins.

Even more than spilled oil in Louisiana marshland, it is the anaemic economy that sours the public mood.

His Third Army was now directed to concentrate in Louisiana.

We have seen photographs of hurricane and typhoon activity due to global warming, affecting people in Louisiana or Myanmar.

The drubbing that they delivered to Democrats in state elections in Louisiana last month is typical.

The storm is expected to touch down somewhere in Texas or southwest Louisiana tomorrow morning.

This has been ranked amongst the major investments in cotton processing, that Louisiana has witnessed since decades.

Louisiana officials say the risks come not just from oil, but from chemical dispersants being sprayed in the water.

The reports come as other, larger bird deaths have been reported in Arkansas, Louisiana and other states.

Louisiana is a southern state where blacks make up a big chunk of the Democratic primary electorate.

But this town in Louisiana is small, poor and, for many, a new symbol of old-style American racism.

And 17 staging areas are in place across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida to rapidly defend sensitive shorelines.

White pelicans feed in the nutrient-rich waters of the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana.