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.
Sandras was at various times curator of the science center's planetarium and observatory in Kenner, Louisiana, at the Louis Roussell Planetarium, and at the time of his death from complications of diabetes as manager of the Gretna Observatory.
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.
The song tells the story of a one-armed Cajun alligator hunter named Amos Moses, son of Doc and Hanna Milsap, who lives "about 45 minutes southeast of Thibodaux, Louisiana".
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).
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.
Breard was arrested for going door to door in the City of Alexandria soliciting magazine subscriptions.
30 of the artist's works were a part of the major retrospective exhibition Artistry in Nature: The Wildlife Paintings of Carl Brenders which opened at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, and Shreveport, Louisiana.
It was discovered by and named for the well known Dr. Robert Carriker of Lafayette, Louisiana.
It was divided in 1877 into East Carroll Parish and West Carroll Parish.
He was captured three days later outside a liquor store in Shreveport, Louisiana where he was using a pay phone while intoxicated.
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).
Holloway shocked political observers on August 21, 2013, when he filed to run in Louisiana's 5th congressional district special election held on October 19, to choose a successor to Republican Rodney Alexander, who resigned from Congress on September 26.
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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.
Convention du Lac held its first event at the Enos Derbonne Sports Complex in South Lake Charles, with an estimated 280 attendees, and Battlestar Galactica actor Richard Hatch as the Guest of Honor.
(2) Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
The A-3 Attack Falcon saw considerable use, in front-line service with the 8th, 13th and 19th Attack Squadrons of the 3rd Attack Group, Barksdale Field, Louisiana, and the 26th Attack Squadron in Hawaii from 1928 to 1934 and with reserve units until 1937.
Born the son of Barbara and Ronnie Wimprine, Danny attented John Curtis Christian High School in River Ridge, Louisiana.
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.
In the United States, the firm has worked with the Marathon Petroleum Company at its major gulf coast refinery in Garyville, Louisiana, to develop VOC BioTreat™, a patent-pending biotreatment solution to reduce volatile organic compound emissions at oil and chemical refineries.
As of August 2013, Gene Gotti is imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution, Pollock in Pollock, Louisiana, where he has been since 1989.
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.
After his release in 1957, then aged 23, he hitchhiked his way to California, stopping in Shreveport, Louisiana where he purchased a revolver using an alias.
Givers was formed in 2008 in Lafayette, Louisiana by Tiffany Lamson, Taylor Guarisco, Kirby Campbell, Josh LeBlanc, William Henderson, and Nick Stephan.
Glenn Wayne Ezell (born October 29, 1944, at Kentwood, Louisiana) is an American former front-office executive in Major League Baseball, as well as a former MLB coach and minor league catcher and manager.
He served as chief judge from 1949 to 1967, and continued on the court thereafter until his death, in Kentwood, Louisiana.
Hesham Tillawi is a Palestinian-American writer, TV talk show host, and political analyst living in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Robert Edwin Russ, the founder of Ruston, Louisiana, was born in Holmes Valley in 1830 but soon moved to Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
The grocer got in touch with Mrs. Lowe’s mother who moved Mrs. Lowe and baby to Farmerville, Louisiana.
His father, Joe Peace, Sr. (1920–1992), a native of Magnolia, Arkansas, was a successful high school football coach from 1948–1975 at Sicily Island in Catahoula Parish.
On 3 April 1864, while off Grand Ecore, Louisiana, he was shot during an ambush and died the following day.
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 businessman in Pineville, Henry served on the Rapides Parish Police Jury (equivalent to county commission in other states) from, first, 1956–1960, and, again, from 1968-1992.
Peter Youree, who commissioned the first skyscraper in Shreveport, Louisiana, a 10-storey headquarters building for the Commercial National Bank, of which he was president, was born in Lafayette County in 1843 and grew up there.
The modern development company, which controls properties in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean, was started in 1971 when the current CEO Gerald G. Barton took control of Godchaux Sugar Company, a bankrupt Louisiana corporation established in 1865.
When Hurricane Katrina hit the city in 2005, Collins and his family had to leave, and eventually settled in Geismar, Louisiana.
A statue of St. Landry stands behind the altar of St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana.
The three-year-old colt made his next start in the September 15 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, Louisiana, finishing fourth.
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.
Louisiana Highway 102 (LA 102) is a state highway located in Jefferson Davis 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.
In Avoyelles Parish, LA 107 continues north to a point known as Dupont where it curves to the east and intersects LA 1179.
Louisiana Highway 1124 (LA 1124) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves Acadia Parish.
From the west, LA 114 begins at an intersection with LA 1 in western Avoyelles Parish.
From the south, LA 181 begins at an intersection with LA 115 at a point known as Lone Pine in northern Evangeline Parish.
Louisiana Highway 3125 (LA 3125) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves St. James.
Louisiana Highway 3193 (LA 3193) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves St. James Parish.
Louisiana Highway 3214 (LA 3214) 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.
Louisiana Highway 3274 (LA 3274) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves St. James Parish.
The western end of the highway is at Cedar Grove and the eastern end is at Effie.
The road connects Iberville Parish with areas along the Atchafalya Swamp in Assumption and St. Mary Parish.
Louisiana Highway 697 (LA 697) is a state highway that serves Vermilion parish.
In 1958, a swing bridge was built on Belle River, and the road was extended southward to parallel the Atchafalaya River through Lower St. Martin and upper St. Mary Parish to reach Morgan City.
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.
Louisiana gained its 2nd and 3rd Congressional Districts in 1823 as part of the 18th United States Congress.
For example, all of Texas, including the Houston metropolitan area as well as the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, as well as the entire state of Louisiana, is within both the Astros' and Rangers' blackout areas.
In 2009, in partnership with St. Elizabeth Hospital, MBP opened a fifth location in Gonzales.
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.
Morganza High School was a high school located at 752 South Louisiana Highway 3050 in the village of Morganza, Louisiana.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States.
The league eventually expanded to include public and private schools in the Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard parishes.
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.
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.
Paul Aaron Brown (January 15, 1932—July 3, 1996) was only the second Republican since Reconstruction to have served as mayor of the small city of Minden in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.
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.
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.
A second order Fresnel lens was provided; during the Civil War Confederate forces raided the tower and carried away the lens and lantern glass, eventually removing them to St. Martinville, but they were recovered at the end of the war.
A Webster Parish native reared in Shreveport, Tiner graduated with a journalism degree from Louisiana Tech University.
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.
In 1811 their chief, Awahakei, died during a visit to Americans in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
The team of Buddy Roberts (billed as "Dale Roberts") and Jerry Brown were the first to adopt the name "The Hollywood Blonds" in wrestling when they began teaming together in 1970 in the “NWA Tri-State” territory (NWA Tri State promoted in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi).
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.
Tweety Carter had one of the greatest high school careers in the history of the sport while attending Reserve Christian School in Reserve, Louisiana.
Following the war, LSM-216 was decommissioned on 2 May 1946 at Calcasieu River, Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Victor "Money" Morris (born on September 1, 1985 in Minden, Louisiana) is an American professional basketball player currently playing for the Windsor Express of the National Basketball League of Canada.
Even though he grew up in St. Francisville, he attended Silliman Institute in Clinton for eight years, and then went to West Feliciana High School for the remainder of his Junior High and High School years.
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.
Wendy Dascomb (born c. 1949) is a pageant titleholder from Metairie, Louisiana, who held the Miss USA 1969 title.
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.
Reed showed athletic ability at an early age and played basketball at West Side High School in Lillie.
Upon its initial sign-on which took place on May 26, 2010 just days before the construction permit expiration date, WRMW initially aired separate pre-recorded programming from the network archives while it was awaiting the installation of its satellite receiver and dish antenna from originating station KJMJ 580 kHz in Alexandria, Louisiana.
It is a repeater of KJMJ 580 kHz in Alexandria, Louisiana, the originating English-language station of Radio Maria USA.
The Federals did not make it to Texas but by November 17 were marching back into New Iberia, having gotten no farther than Opelousas.
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A seiche was observed on Lake Pontchartrain in the US state of Louisiana, and sediment was stirred up in several Louisiana wells.
John Bear states that Adam Smith University has been located in Hawaii, Louisiana, Montana, and South Dakota in the past.
His parents were Louis Gatien Le Breton Comte des Chapelles, born in New Orleans (Louisiana) in 1741, and Marie Françoise Geneviève d'Hémeric des Cartouzières from Béziers in the south of France.
The Houston SPCA served as the coordinator of relief efforts for animals trapped in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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.
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.
USA: John Kimmel, PJ Conlon, Joe Derrane, Billy McComiskey (Irish traditional); John Nolan, (Irish traditional) Marc Savoy (Louisiana Cajun); John Delafose, Boozoo Chavis (Louisiana "zydeco"); Flaco Jimenez ("conjunto")
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.
Harmon earned his wings in May 1918 at Gerstner Field, Louisiana, where he went on to become a flight, gunnery, and bombing instructor.
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.
Ron Gomez, a member of the Louisiana House from Lafayette and at the time a Democrat prior to later switching parties, describes Campbell, when he was a state senator, as "always having some populist, usually anti-business legislation moving through the process. Persistent is his middle name.".
Their daughter Elizabeth Rousby Key was the wife of Louisiana's fifth governor, Henry Johnson and a first cousin to Francis Scott Key.
George Samuel Clason ( November 7, 1874 – April 7, 1957 ), also known as George S. Clason, was born in Louisiana, Missouri, and died in Napa, California.
Guy H. Lillian III is a Louisiana lawyer, former letterhack and science fiction fanzine publisher notable for having been twice nominated for a Hugo Award as best fan writer and having had a row of 12 nominations (without winning) for the Hugo for best fanzine for Challenger.
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.
Jimmie Davis (James Houston Davis, 1899–2000), American singer and governor of Louisiana
Geoff Macdonald, former head women’s tennis coach at Louisiana State University
St. John Richardson Liddell (1815–1870), Louisiana planter and Confederate general
KLAX-TV, a television station (channel 31) licensed to Alexandria, Louisiana
KSHV-TV, a television station (channel 45 analog/44 digital) licensed to Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
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.
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.
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).
A portion of the Navarre neighborhood is also included within the boundaries of the City Park / N. O. Museum Cultural District, designated by Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu on November 1, 2008.
Nolacon is the name given to two Worldcons held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
It lived in the Washington, D.C. area about 110 million years ago, when the area resembled modern southern Louisiana.
The English word "quarter" to mean a neighbourhood (e.g. the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana) is derived from the cognate old French word "quartier".
Leading supporters of the longstanding project were Louisiana Democratic senators Allen J. Ellender, J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. and Russell B. LongJoseph David "Joe D."
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
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.
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.
Former Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation Public Relations Director, Regnal Wallace, created This Week in Louisiana Agriculture in 1981 and the show became the state's first television farm news program.
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This Week in Louisiana Agriculture, or TWILA, is an agricultural television program produced by the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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.