• LOCAL CONDO MARKET STRONG
Condominium prices in greater New Orleans defied national trends with a robust performance in the third quarter of the year, rising 7.7 percent even as most major markets remained in the vise grip of the real estate downturn.

• Properties' transfer to parish OK'd
BATON ROUGE -- The Louisiana Recovery Authority gave final approval Tuesday for the transfer of at least 137 properties from the Louisiana Land Trust to St. Tammany Parish government, leaving environmental reviews as the last hurdle before local officials take control of the hurricane-damaged parcels.

• Advantage Jefferson as vote nears
While incumbency tends to be something of a vote magnet, you would think that the $90,000 the feds found in Rep. William Jefferson's freezer would prove to be an even more powerful vote repellent.

• Advantage Jefferson as vote nears
While incumbency tends to be something of a vote magnet, you would think that the $90,000 the feds found in Rep. William Jefferson's freezer would prove to be an even more powerful vote repellent.

• Attacked man kills pit bulls, cops say
A Slidell man shot and killed his neighbor's two pit bulls after they attacked him and his dog Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

• Board to let bar stay open to 2 a.m.
Lucy's Retired Surfers Bar and Restaurant can remain open until 2 a.m. because the rowdiness that prompted a mandatory midnight closing time is no longer a problem, the Mandeville Zoning Board decided Tuesday night.

• Cooler school buses on the way
The St. Charles Parish School Board will buy air-conditioned school buses this year, starting a journey that eventually will result in its entire fleet being equipped with air.

• Honoré drills in disaster readiness
The brusque, beret-clad general who directed federal troops in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina returned to the city Tuesday as part of his mission to encourage citizens, corporate executives and government officials to be better prepared for disasters.

• Jefferson plans less for capital projects
Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard wants to set aside $62 million for capital projects next year, less than half what the parish has spent this year, according to his proposed 2009 budget.

• Lost boy reunited with his family
A 6-year-old boy wandered into a gas station in the 7th Ward on Tuesday afternoon after getting separated from his brother as they walked home from school, police said. He was reunited with his family after several hours at Police Headquarters, officers said.

• Mayor: Kenner pinching pennies
Kenner has seen many improvements in the past year, but because of the worsening national economy, officials are being frugal for the future, Mayor Ed Muniz said in his State of the City speech Tuesday.

• National conference looks at State of the Black World
The State of the Black World Conference will bring a who's who of African-American scholars, orators, church leaders and organizers to New Orleans for the five-day event at the Astor Crowne Plaza and the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.

• N.O. firm questioned in probe
A New Orleans demography firm has been drawn into a grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania as the Keystone State's attorney general continues a sweeping probe into whether public money paid for partisan campaign activities there.

• Paradis clamoring for library
Presented with a choice of opening a built-from-scratch library in the Paradis area several years from now or moving into an existing building sooner, most of the residents who attended a town hall meeting Tuesday said they want to borrow books in their area as quickly as possible.

• Show will go on again at Copeland's home
The first Christmas without Al Copeland will not be the last for his unbounded display of holiday lights and baubles.

• Teachers' union proposal rejected
In a split vote, the Orleans Parish School Board on Tuesday rejected a collective bargaining agreement as one of its final acts before five new members take office in January.

• Torres probing own trash workers
Garbage hauling executive Sidney Torres IV has hired a private investigator to pry into his own company in search of whether employees illegally dumped portable toilet waste into unauthorized sewage treatment systems at New Orleans' City Park.

• UNO event to explore wide world of GIS
Feel like celebrating the technology that made possible such advances as Google maps and the global positioning devices that let you find your way in strange neighborhoods?

• 5 children will get smiles for Christmas
Danzell works as a cook and earns minimum wage. Her income doesn't go far after she pays the rent and electricity bill each month.

• Car auction pays off for N.O.
The bidding was fast and furious last week as City Hall moved more than 100 cars, trucks and vans off the lot at New Orleans' first abandoned-vehicle auction since Hurricane Katrina.

• Hearing scheduled on levee tie-in
A public hearing on proposed levee alignments affecting property owners along U.S. 90 near the Jefferson Parish line will be held Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Cytec plant in Waggaman.

• Library views to be aired in Paradis today
Residents of Paradis, Des Allemands and Bayou Gauche tonight will have a chance to voice their opinion about whether to build a new library in the area or to convert an existing building that would provide service to residents several years sooner.

• Marinello phone records go to court
Providing a glimpse of the evidence they have against Vince Marinello, prosecutors Monday got the green light to present testimony of a cellular phone expert to help explain to a jury the former broadcaster's whereabouts on the day his wife was shot.

• Murder suspect is captured in L.A.
Police in Los Angeles have apprehended Joseph Cammatte, the second man accused in a fatal, drug-related attack at a Metairie house this month, authorities said Monday.

• N.O. man killed outside home in 8th Ward
A 21-year-old man was shot to death Monday night outside his home in the 8th Ward.

• Roadside Covington store goes up in flames Sunday
Rudy Booth sat on the front porch of his store Sunday morning, keeping up his weekly tradition of drinking coffee and shooting the breeze with the regulars at Ramsey's Grocery.

• SDT scraps plan for garbage facility
After months of neighborhood opposition, garbage executive Sidney Torres IV is pulling the plug on plans to build a controversial $2 million garbage transfer site on Paris Road in Chalmette.

• Slidell man severely burned
A Slidell man suffered severe burns in a fire that gutted a two-story duplex Teddy Avenue early Sunday morning, authorities said.

• SOMETHING IN COMMON
On television, Wendell Pierce is an affable grump of a homicide detective working the streets of a crime-wracked, blighted inner city.

• Squabble over RV parking may bring about new code
A feud between neighbors over a huge mobile home parked at Severn Avenue and 49th Street in Metairie might prompt Jefferson Parish officials to reconsider the codes governing vehicle sizes on residential properties.

• St. John adds 6 new bins for recycling
St. John the Baptist Parish is kicking off a pilot recycling program with free drop-off locations starting today.

• Union sues Jeff after data hits Web
Its east bank firefighters union sued Jefferson Parish on Monday for exposing the Social Security numbers of firefighters on a public Web site.

• Turkey panic has antidote
They are the voice of reason when the turkey is lost in a snowbank or has gone up in flames or ends up with the family Chihuahua stuck inside.

• Violet man held in rape of teen
A man living in Violet has been booked with the rape of a 15-year-old girl he had brought to St. Bernard Parish from Missouri, authorities said.

• MAKING AN ENTRANCE
City Park's front door is getting an extreme makeover.

• FEMA launches recovery Web site
New Orleans area residents now have a second Internet site to use to check the rebuilding status of a fire station, branch library or other storm-damaged facility in their neighborhood.

• Alumna to discuss media roles in the Middle East
A Loyola University graduate who has covered the Middle East will return to her alma mater tonight to discuss the media's role in that part of the world.

• Wreck takes down light pole
A light pole controlling the traffic signals of a major Covington intersection is down this morning after a fire engine struck it during a car accident Sunday.

• Young mom recalls the excitement of holiday
Kim has fond memories of going to The Times-Picayune Doll and Toy Fund distribution at the Superdome when she was a child.

• HAPPENINGS
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• MEETINGS
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• In grief, mothers forge a friendship
BATON ROUGE -- Quita Bryant was too distraught to give a statement two years ago at the sentencing of her son's killer. But something changed for her that day.

• Soldier with La. unit dies
Jonnie L. Stiles and three colleagues from the Louisiana Army National Guard set out sometime Thursday on a mission to check and clear the roadways of Jalalabad, a city in eastern Afghanistan.

• Crime falls as Jefferson cleans up
The crackdown on crumbling buildings, overgrown lawns, junked cars and other code offenses in Jefferson Parish might also be helping to suppress violent crime, according to a new study from the Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission.

• Moms work to boost reading in New Orleans
Standing near a row of salon chairs in a Bayou Road beauty shop Saturday morning, Jualila LaCour held up the picture book "How Do Dinosaurs Eat Food?" so the children huddled around her could see it.

• Toys are tradition for kids in Head Start
Liz Bailey has lots of stories about children in the St. John the Baptist Head Start program in Central City who have benefited from The Times-Picayune Doll and Toy Fund.

• Man found dead in street
New Orleans police are investigating an apparent hit-and-run that left a 49-year-old man dead early Saturday in Gert Town, a police spokesman said.

• N.O. man dies in shooting
A 37-year-old New Orleans man was shot dead Saturday night in the 2800 block of Chippewa Street in the Lower Garden District, police said.

• Band's debut eclipses Sun incident
Will Rachal wanted to tell me a different story, one that didn't put a blot on St. Tammany Parish. He wanted to talk about the St. Augustine High School Marching 100 performing at the Veterans Celebrate Freedom Parade in Slidell last Sunday.

• MEETINGS
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• Cars, home broken into at River Forest
A guest in River Forest apartments in Covington looted five cars and a home before being busted by police, authorities said Friday.

• City's zoning proposal to be unveiled
Planning consultants will unveil their proposed zoning map for Covington on Wednesday during a 6 p.m. meeting at the Greater Covington Center.

• Colleges, charities to share money
Colleges and charities in four Gulf Coast states where a batch of tainted Shell gasoline damaged car fuel gauges four years ago are about to share in $1.7 million left over after the oil company's 2006 settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of affected motorists.

• Crack addict found guilty in grandma's beating death
An admitted crack-addicted prostitute from Indiana who migrated to Jefferson Parish in search of work after Hurricane Katrina was convicted of manslaughter Friday night in the beating of a 94-year-old woman in her home.

• Darensburg announces candidacy for bench
Judge June Berry Darensburg of the 24th Judicial District Court has announced she will run for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal.

• Fire district rolls millage ahead
Residents who live in the Mandeville area will pay between 10 percent and 14 percent more for fire protection next year after the St. Tammany Fire Protection District No. 4 board agreed to roll forward its millage rate, though parish and state leaders had urged against the move.

• Jefferson siblings' trial is delayed
The federal fraud trial of Mose and Betty Jefferson, two of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson's elder siblings, has been postponed until Feb. 9.

• Jeff reserve deputy is arrested
A reserve deputy with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office has been booked with pornography involving juveniles, authorities said Friday.

• LOYALTY'S REWARD
It had all the trappings of a typical groundbreaking, including a swarm of politicians, a row of shovels and a muddy site marked with wooden stakes.

• Man fatally shot Wednesday ID'd
The grandmother of a 19-year-old who was murdered Wednesday night in the 7th Ward says her grandson was bringing her groceries when a killer took his life.

• Nagin reports on his travails with the media
For years, Mayor Ray Nagin has made it abundantly clear that he thinks he gets a raw deal from the media.

• New charge tossed in 2004 killing
An Orleans Parish judge has thrown out a fresh charge in an old murder case, finding that prosecutors waited too long to take the suspect to trial.

• N.O. police kill pit bull
New Orleans police shot and killed another dog Friday afternoon -- at least the third this year.

• PINT-SIZE PATRIOT
St. Timothy's Episcopal Pre-School students put their patriotism on parade as they marched around the school grounds and the surrounding neighborhood during the LaPlace school's annual Red, White and Blue Parade on Thursday. The parade was held in part to celebrate the completion of the first unit of the reading readiness program.

• Rezoning meeting delayed
A special session of the St. Tammany Parish Zoning Commission scheduled for Tuesday night to discuss a rezoning proposal for the southwestern region of the parish has been postponed.

• Road, drainage repair budgets doubled
St. John the Baptist Parish officials recently approved a $48.5 million budget that more than doubles the spending for road and drainage repairs in 2009.

• Schools plan would shift administrators
After years spent following an outdated plan, the Jefferson Parish public school system is considering updating the way it allocates school-based administrators, in hopes of scaling back costs and balancing the number of principals and vice principals across the system.

• Sessions focus on elevating homes
Federal Emergency Management Agency engineers will meet with residents of Orleans and Jefferson parishes this weekend to provide information about the technical guidelines for elevating homes and the importance of floodproofing commercial structures.

• Stricter rules delayed on lawyer advertising
Faced with a lawsuit attacking restrictions on how lawyers can communicate with consumers, the Louisiana Supreme Court has postponed implementation of the lawyer advertising rules it adopted earlier this year.

• Teacher union deal set for vote
After more than a year of negotiations, a lame-duck Orleans Parish School Board plans to take up a proposed collective-bargaining agreement Tuesday for teachers in board-run schools, less than two months before a new board opposed to granting the contract takes office.

• Toddler will get a gift, after all
Pam marvels at how well her 3-year-old daughter speaks. She credits the child's progress to therapy she receives at a local school for the deaf and to surgery she underwent to correct a tongue deformity.

• Twin spans will close for a night
The westbound lanes of the Interstate 10 twin spans will close Sunday night and early Monday for inspection of the bridge.

• Zeno to hang up robes for good
Judge Melvin Zeno, feted Friday in a ceremony marking his retirement next month from the 24th Judicial District Court, will not run for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal.

• Toy drive inspired elementary to do good
It can be a daunting task to pick out students who are the most needy in a school where nearly every student comes from public housing.

• Toy drive inspired N.O. elementary
It can be a daunting task to pick out students who are the most needy in a school where nearly every student comes from public housing.

• Cannizzaro set to take oath next week
Orleans Parish District Attorney-elect Leon Cannizzaro said he is ready to step into his new role and will take office as soon as the secretary of state's office issues him a commission, which he expects will happen next week.

• Death threats lead to Mississippi arrest
A 19-year-old Mississippi man faces federal charges for sending threatening e-mails to black college students after the historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency, the U.S. attorney's office said Thursday.

• Grand jury date put off, Rodriguez says
Former St. Bernard Parish President Henry "Junior" Rodriguez said Thursday that federal authorities postponed his grand jury appearance because of a scheduling conflict.

• Ground broken for Slidell school
Three years and three months after the original school was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, work has begun on a new Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in Slidell.

• Jeff man indicted in kidnap-murder case
A Kenner man accused of killing another man after allegedly abducting him from a River Ridge home was indicted Thursday on a second-degree murder charge.

• Man convicted of taking customers to cleaners
A Harvey man has been convicted of bank fraud in connection with stealing more than $100,000 from customers at his family's dry cleaners by stealing their debit card information and personal identification numbers.

• Man guilty of rape of girl
Decades ago, Isiah Fisher told the little girls in his life to say nothing about their time together.

• Man who stole ID of sailor gets prison
A former civilian employee at the Naval Support Activity has been sentenced to three months in prison for using a sailor's identity to buy a new pickup truck, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten announced.

• NOPD chief admits cash is missing
New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley acknowledged for the first time Thursday that $19,000 in cash is missing from the department's property room and promised to investigate the matter fully.

• Orleans Levee District millage boosted
Regional levee commissioners increased the Orleans Levee District millage rate by 13.5 percent Thursday to collect an additional $2.9 million in taxes next year, additional money that will barely enable the New Orleans district to balance its books, officials said.

• Slidell residents to pay more for fire protection
Residents who live in and around Slidell will see a moderate increase this year in their annual fee for fire protection after the St. Tammany Fire Protection District No. 1 board decided Thursday night against rolling back the millage rate the full amount as most other parish taxing bodies have done.

• Third N.O. complex to bite the dust
Another apartment complex targeted by the East New Orleans Neighborhood Advisory Commission will be razed.

• 3 booked in March kidnap, killing
Three people have been arrested in the March kidnapping and killing of Terrance Pinkley, and investigators are searching for a fourth suspect, a spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.

• Auction promises deals on wheels
In the market for a 2002 Jeep? A 1998 Lexus? Or maybe a 1988 Volvo? The city of New Orleans just might offer a bargain on one.

• Bank robber caught red-handed
A man caught covered in red dye after he robbed a French Quarter bank of $400 pleaded guilty to bank robbery on Wednesday.

• Corps will discuss Bayou St. John tonight
Bayou St. John residents are likely to hear tonight that they're winning their campaign to prohibit construction of a new levee that would block the historic waterway's connection to Lake Pontchartrain.

• East N.O. complex runs into legal snag
The city of New Orleans must recall a dozen building permits issued to developers building a multifamily residential complex in eastern New Orleans, a judge ruled Wednesday in a rare legal order.

• Luling church given reprieve by board
St. Charles Parish School Board President John Smith said the board will give preservationists time to try to save the old St. Anthony of Padua Church in Luling, but he warned the time is limited.

• Mandeville house fire likely set on purpose
The fire that seriously damaged the home of a man who is seeking to recall Mandeville Mayor Eddie Price was almost certainly arson because it started at several locations, the state fire marshal's office said Wednesday.

• Man gets prison time for online obscenity
A Missouri man was sentenced to 15 months in jail for obscene online communications with someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl, but who really was an undercover Kenner detective, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten's office said Wednesday.

• Man held in rape from 23 years ago
A 49-year-old Florida man has been arrested in the rape of a woman more than two decades ago.

• Man who misspent SBA loans sentenced
A Metairie man who used Katrina repair loans from the federal government to buy a car, a boat and a house was sentenced Wednesday to four months in prison.

• Modular builder closes the door on Slidell shop
The owner of a modular home business in Slidell plans to close his store after a protracted battle with city officials for permission to place two model homes on Lindberg Drive.

• N.O. school building boom OK'd
Louisiana's board of education unanimously approved a $2 billion school facilities plan for New Orleans, paving the way for the largest school building boom in the city's history.

• River Ridge man booked with May rape
A River Ridge man was arrested Monday and booked with forcible rape, authorities said.

• Road Home bias alleged
Fair-housing advocates and black homeowners in New Orleans filed a federal class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the Louisiana Recovery Authority and U.S. Housing and Urban Development, claiming the Road Home grant calculation formula is discriminatory.

• Sanitation chief accused of lying to N.O. council
New Orleans Sanitation Director Veronica White stormed out of a budget hearing Tuesday after a City Council member accused her of withholding requested information about garbage service, saying her testimony was contradictory and grounds for dismissal.

• Social Security numbers go on Web
A public relations firm hired by Jefferson Parish briefly posted the Social Security numbers of many east bank firefighters on a public Web site last week.

• Teen found dead in N.O. shooting
A 19-year-old New Orleans man was shot dead on a 7th Ward sidewalk as he walked home Wednesday night, police said.

• Study: Same-sex heart transplants more successful
For reasons no one completely understands, people who receive hearts from donors of the same sex live longer, according to a massive study presented Wednesday in New Orleans.

• DWI ARRESTS
This list of people booked with driving while intoxicated and related charges was provided by the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff's Office.

• Teen takes aid beyond mission trip
When Madeline Baay came home to New Orleans on Monday, the first thing she wanted to do was heat some water in the microwave and wash her face.

• Algiers residents review schools plan
With the Orleans Parish Public Schools' master plan approaching final approval, a group of Algiers educators and residents convened Tuesday to scrutinize the latest version, blast certain proposals and lobby to keep alive schools tentatively slated for closure.

• Arson suspected in Tammany house fire
A weekend blaze that gutted the home of a man who is leading an effort to recall Mandeville Mayor Eddie Price is being investigated by the state fire marshal as a possible arson.

• Artery risks rise in obese kids
Clogged arteries may be common among people in their 40s, but the plaque-plagued blood vessels under discussion Tuesday in New Orleans belonged to children.

• Belle Chasse woman hurt in collision
A Belle Chasse woman was seriously injured in a two-car crash on Louisiana 23 on Tuesday morning, State Police said.

• Canal lock meeting tonight
The latest report on the consequences of building a new Industrial Canal lock will get its only public airing tonight before the plan is reviewed by a federal judge who halted work on the Army Corps of Engineers project.

• Council refuses to view teen's tape
Warned that it could affect litigation involving the Youth Study Center, the New Orleans City Council on Tuesday refused to allow the showing of a three-minute video about alleged problems at the city-run juvenile detention facility.

• Kenner assisted living center sought
Developers are proposing an assisted living complex for elderly people at the former site of the Redwood Park apartments in Kenner.

• Kenner assisted living center sought
Developers are proposing an assisted living complex for elderly people at the former site of the Redwood Park apartments in Kenner.

• Man held in pair of fake bombs
A security guard has been arrested on federal charges of twice constructing fake bombs and then calling in threats to police and the Kenner hotel where he worked.

• Messy storefronts targeted in St. John
Code enforcement officers will soon turn to business owners if a storefront is cluttered with trash, thanks to changes in a St. John the Baptist Parish anti-litter ordinance.

• N.O. lawyer suspended from court
A New Orleans lawyer who made national headlines in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina by publicly defying Mayor Ray Nagin's mandatory evacuation order has been suspended for five years from representing clients in federal district court in the city.

• Push to fill Slidell seat hits snag
Though Slidell voters agreed last week to amend the city's charter to allow the City Council to appoint an interim member to a vacant seat, the language in the amendment may prohibit the council from filling the vacancy that now exists.

• Ruling stands in fatal crash
More than nine years after a charter bus carrying 43 elderly St. John Parish residents to a Mississippi casino on Mother's Day veered off Interstate 610 in New Orleans, killing more than half those aboard and injuring the rest, a series of civil lawsuits parceling out blame for the wreck appears to be nearing a close.

• Sister is desperate for clues in killing
Three days after her brother's murder, the oldest sister of Kevin Rowe says she is desperate for information about his killer.

• Storms force change of plans
St. Charles Parish public school officials are revising the district's hurricane response plan based on lessons learned this year during Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.

• Early College High holding open house
The Capital One-UNO Charter Network will host open house sessions at Pierre A. Capdau Early College High School, 4621 Canal St., on Thursday.

• Fire damages store in Quarter
A one-alarm fire Tuesday morning damaged a retail store in the French Quarter.

• HAPPENINGS
ROAD CLOSURES

• Lecture studies role of women in '08 elections
If you are looking for more information and insights on last week's election, the Newcomb College Institute has a lecture for you on Thursday at noon.

• MEETINGS
These government and community meetings are open to the public. To have meetings considered for inclusion, send e-mail to citydesk@tpmail.com with MEETINGS in the subject line or a fax to 504.826.3007. MASTER PLAN DISTRICT MEETINGS -- The New Orleans City Planning Commission and consultants working on the city's new master plan and revised zoning ordinance hold meetings to focus on individual planning districts' zoning and planning issues. All citizens are invited to attend and participate. -- Today, 6:30-8:30 p.m.: 2nd District planning meeting at the Dryades YMCA/Singleton Charter School, 2220 O.C. Haley Blvd.; 7th District planning meeting at Holy Angels Academy, 3500 St. Claude Ave.; and 9th, 10th, 11th Districts planning meeting at Schaumburg Elementary School, 9501 Grant St. -- Thursday, 6:30-8:30 p.m.: 4th District planning meeting at Grace Episcopal Church, 3700 Canal St., and 12th and 13th Districts planning meeting at O. Perry Walker High School, 2832 Gen. Meyer Ave. CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT A TOWN HALL MEETING -- Today, 6 p.m., at Grace Episcopal Church, 3700 Canal St. City Councilwoman Shelley Midura holds a meeting to discuss the city's proposed 2009 budget and the budget approval process. Constituents are invited to share their opinions. Call 504.658.1010. INDUSTRIAL CANAL LOCK PUBLIC HEARING -- Today, open house at 6 p.m. and formal presentation at 7 p.m., at Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School, 1617 Caffin Ave. The Army Corps of Engineers holds a hearing to present its plans to replace the 85-year-old lock on the Industrial Canal, also known as the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal. Attendees will be asked to comment on the draft supplemental environmental impact statement. SCHOOL AUTONOMY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN NEW ORLEANS CONFERENCE -- Thursday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., at UNO's Lindy C. Boggs International Conference Center, 2000 Lakeshore Drive. The UNO College of Education and Human Development sponsors a symposium. Register at http://coehd.uno.edu/symposium.cfm. Free. HOLY CROSS COMMUNITY MEETING -- Thursdays, 5:30 p.m., at Greater Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 5130 Chartres St. LEVEE IMPROVEMENTS HEARING -- Thursday, open house, 6-7 p.m., and formal program, 7-9 p.m., at the Lindy C. Boggs Conference Center, Room 236, on the UNO campus, 2045 Lakeshore Drive. The Army Corps of Engineers holds a public meeting to discuss plans to strengthen New Orleans' lakefront levees from the Jefferson/Orleans Parish line to the Industrial Canal. More information at www.nolaenvironmental.gov. NORTH SHORE ECONOMIC AND REAL ESTATE SEMINAR -- Friday, 8 a.m.-noon, at the Covington Center, 318 N. Jefferson Ave. Sponsored by the University of New Orleans College of Business Administration, Southeastern Louisiana University and Latter & Blum Realtors. Fee is $70 at the door. Visit www.unobusiness.com or call Aundrea Kloor at 504.280.1322. 'CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS' EDUCATION CONFERENCE -- Saturday, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., at UNO's Lindy C. Boggs International Conference Center, 2000 Lakeshore Drive. Call Donnica Conway at 504.943.0343. CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT B TOWN HALL MEETING -- Saturday, 10 a.m., at Greater King Solomon Baptist Church, 3221 Audubon St. City Councilwoman Stacy Head holds a meeting in Gert Town to discuss crime prevention, infrastructure issues, a potential health clinic, recreation facilities, improvement of Earhart Boulevard and other issues. Call 504.658.1020. O.C. HALEY BOULEVARD COMMUNITY MARKETPLACE -- Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center, 1712 O.C. Haley Blvd. The O.C. Haley Main Street Initiative holds its second annual "Make a Joyful Noise" Gospel & Arts Festival and Community MarketPlace, featuring performers such as the Rev. Lois DeJean and Ebenezer Baptist Church Choir, Jo "Cool" Davis and others. PROSPECT.1 PRESENTATION -- Saturday, 2 p.m., at the New Orleans Public Library, 219 Loyola Ave. Dan Cameron, curator of the Prospect.1 New Orleans art exhibition, will discuss the exhibition now under way in New Orleans. Sponsored by the New Orleans Secular Humanist Association. LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY REBUILDING AND FLOOD PROTECTION EXPO -- Sunday, 1-5 p.m., on and around Harrison Avenue between West End and Argonne boulevards and north of I-610, with seminars and displays at St. Paul's Episcopal School, the Knights of Columbus Hall and other sites. A free program offering information on how to secure homes against floodwaters, as well as how to rebuild homes to be energy-efficient and storm-resistant. For information, visit www.LSUAgCenter.com/Rebuilding/Expo or contact Denise Attaway at 225.578.6087 or dattaway@agcenter.lsu.edu. EAST BANK NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY MEETING -- Monday, open house, 6:30 p.m., and presentation of plans, 7:15-8:30 p.m., at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts/Riverfront, Ellis Marsalis Jazz Studio, 2800 Chartres St. The Naval Support Activity New Orleans Advisory Task Force, the group charged with preparing a plan for redevelopment and reuse of the east bank facility when the military no longer needs it, holds a meeting to gather community suggestions. EASTERN NEW ORLEANS LEVEES MEETING -- Tuesday, open house, 6-7 p.m., and formal program, 7-9 p.m., at the Church at New Orleans, 11700 Chef Menteur Highway. The Army Corps of Engineers holds a public meeting to discuss plans to improve levees and floodwalls in eastern New Orleans and the Lower 9th Ward. The meeting will discuss the Citrus Lakefront Levee, eastern New Orleans levees and floodwalls, and Inner Harbor Navigation Canal surge barrier. More information at www.nolaenvironmental.gov. GLOBAL GREEN PANEL DISCUSSION -- Nov. 19, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Global Green USA Resource Center, 841 Carondelet St. CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT C TOWN HALL MEETING -- Nov. 20, 6 p.m., at Holy Angels Cafeteria, 3500 St. Claude Ave. City Councilman James Carter holds a meeting at which Recreation Department Director Larry Barabino will discuss the status of Mickey Markey Park. Call 504.658.1030. HOME ELEVATION SEMINAR -- Nov. 20, 6 p.m., 5713 Elysian Fields Ave. "Keep Your Head Above Water: How to Get the Money You Need to Elevate Your Home," a discussion of sources of money to elevate homes and who is eligible for it. Visit www.buildnownola.com/events. BROAD STREET BAZAAR -- Nov. 22, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at North Broad Street and Bienville Street.

• Terri Bartlett, activist for women's rights
Terri Bartlett, a tiny dynamo who used a combination of intellect, persistence and Southern charm to be an advocate for women's and children's rights, died Saturday at Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., of complications from a stroke. She was 57.

• Arson probed in Madisonville fire
The suspect in a drive-by shooting near Madisonville is back behind bars, on suspicion of setting fire to her former home Monday while out on bond.

• Board sticks to East Jeff site
Those petty, cross-river tensions have flared again among Jefferson Parish School Board members, this time during a curious, out-of-the-blue discussion over where to hold the December meeting.

• Body found in canal during investigation
St. Tammany Parish deputies recovered a body they believe to be a female murder victim in the Pearl River Canal near Sun on Monday and were interviewing a "person of interest" in the case, authorities said.

• FEMA OKs more for Slidell
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has agreed to cover the final $1.1 million for Hurricane Katrina-related sewer system repairs in Slidell.

• Folsom building curb rejected
Disregarding the voices in a packed village hall, two of the three Folsom Board of Aldermen instead listened to the mayor on Monday evening and struck down an ordinance that would have placed a six-month moratorium on large-scale commercial and residential projects in the village.

• Former parish leader to testify
Former St. Bernard Parish President Henry "Junior" Rodriguez on Monday was subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury Thursday morning.

• Issues pile up for new mayor
Westwego Mayor-elect John Shaddinger faces several challenges during his short tenure, including learning the ropes of a new job while preparing for a spring re-election campaign.

• Jeff deputy booked in drug case
For the third time in nearly two years, a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office deputy has been booked with "doctor shopping" to illegally obtain prescription drugs.

• Kenner, airport end road feud
Fourteen years after agreeing to the idea, Kenner and the Louis Armstrong International Airport are close to the next step in the airport's plans to widen Aberdeen Street from two lanes to four.

• Little Pearl Elementary settles in at new school
Preparing an educational display about reading for her classroom in the new Little Pearl Elementary School, kindergarten teacher Erin Marvel celebrated stability.

• Mother of premature twins struggles to cope
Jamie's twin daughters were born 2 1/2 years ago with a rare disease called Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome. The girls were born prematurely and shared the same placenta.

• Quick arrest follows Marigny vandalism
A 25-year-old man was arrested Sunday night on suspicion of bashing four vehicles in the same Faubourg Marigny block just moments earlier.

• Reward rises in murder case
The family of a 25-year-old San Francisco woman killed in late September raised the reward for information about the crime to $10,000 on Monday, as New Orleans police asked the public to help them figure out what happened to Kirsten Brydum in the last hours of her life.

• Schools rewarded for ACT progress
Two St. John the Baptist Parish high schools and one in St. James Parish were honored recently for raising their ACT scores, as well as the number of students taking the college-readiness test over the past five years.

• State seizes 19 acres along MR-GO
A St. Bernard Parish judge Monday ordered two private landowners to give up a 19-acre tract of marsh along the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet that is crucial for plans to build a storm surge barrier along the now-infamous shipping shortcut.

• Trial delayed for mom accused of arming son
The Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office wasn't ready yet again Monday to proceed with the murder trial of Vanessa Johnson, a mother accused of giving her teenage son a gun and instructions to kill a rival last year.

• Vandals damage dozens of cars
Vandals used rocks and brick fragments to smash windows on 26 vehicles in northwest Metairie, and investigators are seeking tips on finding the culprits.

• Airport security director named
Larry Austin, a former Florida Highway Patrol commander, has been named federal security director for Louis Armstrong International Airport, the Transportation and Security Administration announced Monday.

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• Infants' umbilical cords show promise for heart treatment
Years from now, infants with heart problems may be able to get replacement valves made with stem cells from the blood in their own umbilical cords, according to a German study presented Monday in New Orleans.

• John Petre Jr., served on council
Former New Orleans City Councilman and mayoral candidate John Petre Jr. died Saturday. He was 94.

• MEETINGS
These government and community meetings are open to the public. To have meetings considered for inclusion, send e-mail to citydesk@tpmail.com with MEETINGS in the subject line or a fax to 504.826.3007. SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY DISCUSSION -- Today, 5:30-7 p.m., at Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center on Tulane's campus. Tulane University's Cowen Institute hosts a panel discussion entitled "Standards, Assessments & Accountability: Do They Raise the Bar for Education Excellence?" MASTER PLAN DISTRICT MEETINGS -- The New Orleans City Planning Commission and consultants working on the city's new master plan and revised zoning ordinance hold meetings to focus on individual planning districts' zoning and planning issues. All citizens are invited to attend and participate. -- Today, 6:30-8:30 p.m.: Planning District 1 meeting at the Chateau Bourbon Hotel, 800 Iberville St., and Planning District 6 meeting at Dillard University's Kearny Hall, West Wing, 2601 Gentilly Blvd. -- Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m.: Planning District 2 meeting at the Dryades YMCA/Singleton Charter School, 2220 O.C. Haley Blvd.; Planning District 7 meeting at Holy Angels Academy, 3500 St. Claude Ave.; and Planning Districts 9, 10 and 11 meeting at Schaumburg Elementary School, 9501 Grant St. -- Thursday, 6:30-8:30 p.m.: Planning District 4 meeting at Grace Episcopal Church, 3700 Canal St., and Planning Districts 12 and 13 meeting at O. Perry Walker High School, 2832 Gen. Meyer Ave. CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 'A' TOWN HALL MEETING -- Wednesday, 6 p.m., at Grace Episcopal Church, 3700 Canal St. City Councilwoman Shelley Midura holds a meeting to discuss the city's proposed 2009 budget and the budget approval process. Constituents are invited to share their opinions. Call 504.658.1010. INDUSTRIAL CANAL LOCK PUBLIC HEARING -- Wednesday, open house at 6 p.m. and formal presentation at 7 p.m., at Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School, 1617 Caffin Ave. The Army Corps of Engineers holds a hearing.

• N.O. schools to host open houses
The Capital One-UNO Charter Network will host several open house events at its schools over the next two months.

• Program to improve schools, educators
Applications are due Thursday for the 12th annual School Leadership Center Fellows Program.

• Veteran shares what he's learned
To look at Mike Wells, you wouldn't know his back is held together with screws and rods. You wouldn't know his toes feel like they're going to explode sometimes. You wouldn't know he feels lucky to be able to walk.

• Veterans parade starts near Dome at 11 today
The Greater New Orleans Veterans Council and the Military Order of the Purple Heart will hold a celebration and parade in downtown New Orleans today in honor of Veterans Day.

• Man arrested in 15-year-old's killing
New Orleans police on Sunday nabbed a 19-year-old man they believe fatally shot a 15-year-old, mechanically skilled boy in the St. Roch neighborhood Saturday evening.

• Doll and Toy Fund leaves a lasting impression
Maggie Brown remembers back two decades ago when as a young mother without much money how she would depend on The Times-Picayune Doll and Toy Fund to provide her two children with Christmas toys.

• Multicultural education meetings start on Wednesday
Southern University at New Orleans will be the host institution for a five-day conference on multicultural education that will start Wednesday at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel.

• Federal city gets cash from state
Reaching their latest milestone in transforming the Naval Support Activity in Algiers into a governmental and commercial campus, planners for the federal-city project have their first cash infusion from the state.

• Anti-blight agency to buy Gentilly Woods mall
Flexing newfound financial muscle, the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority recently used public money to outbid a private developer for an abandoned shopping mall, offering $700,000 more than its competitor to get direct control over a key recovery project site.

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• Man in critical condition after shooting Sunday
An unidentified man was shot Sunday night in Algiers Point and taken to the hospital in critical condition, a New Orleans Police Department spokesman said.

• Residents invited to planning meetings
The New Orleans City Planning Commission and the consultants working on the city's new master plan and revised zoning ordinance will begin a series of district meetings tonight, focusing on zoning and planning issues in individual planning districts.

• Family fighting to return to house
Veronica and her three young children are living in transitional housing in downtown New Orleans until the house where they once lived can be repaired and they can be reunited with the children's father.

• Marketplace honors growth in Lower 9
In the parking lot of a former Walgreens, now home to a small Episcopal church, a new tradition blossoms.

• North shore blaze destroys one home, damages others
A fire that started Saturday afternoon at a home in the 700 block of Woodridge Boulevard in St. Tammany Parish's Woodridge subdivision quickly spread to two other homes.

• 2 Gretna residents die in crash
Two Gretna residents, Brian C. Braud and Evelyn S. Powell, died Saturday afternoon in a motorcycle accident in Tangipahoa Parish.

• Hope lives at property auction
Contractor and architect Gary Meadows went to his first "sheriff's sale" property auction purely out of curiosity.

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• Pajamas project helps mom sleep
Mindy Caplan spends lots of time buying pajamas, begging for pajamas and talking about pajamas. Pajamas for children are her passion.

• Boy, 2, left alone; mother arrested
A St. Bernard Parish mother was booked with child desertion Friday after leaving her 2-year-old at home alone while she was at work, the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office said.

• Camera helps nab 2 suspects
After being burglarized repeatedly, Vincent Costanza finally turned the tables Wednesday, alerting Kenner police to a burglary in progress at his scrap yard.

• Chevy dealer can start engine
The St. Tammany Parish Council has given Hood Northlake LLC the green light to move into and open its new auto dealership south of Covington after the company committed to do road improvements required of its zoning permit.

• City's 'most wanted' is caught
After four weeks on the lam, a 30-year-old man described as Covington Police Department's "most wanted criminal" was apprehended Thursday evening in Mandeville.

• Connick squelches rumors he will replace Letten
Is Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick Jr. in line to be the next U.S. attorney in New Orleans?

• Fund can be a portal to brighter tomorrow
Sometimes families of children who receive toys through The Times-Picayune Doll and Toy Fund get extra benefits that can change their lives.

• Judge-elect plans to quit School Board
With months of campaigning behind her, Judge-elect Ellen Kovach said she's planning a resignation from the Jefferson Parish School Board while preparing to join the 24th Judicial District Court bench in January.

• Kenner auction case gets criminal
Kenner's civil case against two Brooklyn, Miss., auctioneers has turned criminal now that authorities have obtained warrants to arrest them for keeping a half-million dollars from the sale of surplus municipal property.

• Land Trust board members clash
BATON ROUGE -- Members of the board of directors for the Louisiana Land Trust -- the repository for thousands of storm-damaged homes sold to the state through the Road Home program -- clashed Friday over how quickly abandoned properties can be transferred to New Orleans officials for redevelopment.

• Morrell flexes endorsement muscle in Jefferson Parish
State Rep. J.P. Morrell of Gentilly got a major boost Friday in his bid to represent a state Senate district that includes parts of both Orleans and Jefferson parishes when he rolled out endorsements from a who's who of Jefferson's political establishment.

• New DA prepares to take reins
District Attorney-elect Leon Cannizzaro began setting up his transition team Friday, announcing that Civil Court Clerk Dale Atkins and banker Gary Solomon will lead the effort.

• New law targets metal thieves
Several months after its last attempt was tossed out by a local judge, the New Orleans City Council this week passed its fourth law in the past two years aimed at curbing sales of stolen metal.

• N.O. teen shoots himself in leg
One of four teenagers in a home on Abundance Street in Gentilly pulled out a gun and shot himself in the leg Friday night, New Orleans police said.

• St. John to press lawmakers on future of Miss. River ferry
The future of St. John the Baptist Parish's Reserve-to-Edgard ferry remains a mystery, but parish officials are hoping the state can provide some answers.

• Title to land sought in court
Levee authorities went to court Friday seeking title to 19 acres of land needed for construction of a protective structure across the MR-GO, but a state court judge in St. Bernard Parish told them to come back on Monday.

• Wife guilty in man's death
A New Orleans woman faces up to 40 years in prison for firing a gun into her husband's face on Mardi Gras 2004.

• Work-release site next to parish jail OK'd
The St. Tammany Parish Council, despite objections from Covington officials and residents, has granted a zoning change and permit for a local company to run a prisoner work-release program next to the parish jail.

• Kids sought for toy fund giveaway in December
Today is the kickoff of the 113th annual Times-Picayune Doll and Toy Fund, and officials are hoping for a robust turnout of kids at the Dec. 6 distribution at the Louisiana Superdome.

• Body ID'd as man from Covington
A body found Wednesday along the Little Bogue Falaya River has been identified as that of a 69-year-old Covington man, the St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office said.

• Cash is missing, attorney says
A defense attorney attempting to retrieve a client's money, initially seized during a drug bust, said he discovered that almost half of it was missing from the New Orleans Police Department's property room.

• City, agency OK blight fight plan
Mayor Ray Nagin's administration and the cash-poor New Orleans Redevelopment Authority cleared a major bureaucratic hurdle Thursday in agreeing to a plan for freeing up $38 million in federal money to fight blight, enforce code violations and return idle tracts of land to commerce.

• Council OKs energy-efficiency plan
After months of delay, the New Orleans City Council agreed Thursday on a way to begin financing a plan designed to make thousands of homes and businesses in the city more energy-efficient.

• Crash kills teen in Jesuit Bend
A 13-year-old boy was killed Wednesday when the four-wheeler he was riding was hit by a truck on Louisiana 23 in Jesuit Bend, State Police said.

• Former cop faces new sex charges
A New Orleans police officer who resigned last month following his arrest on rape charges appeared in court Thursday morning to face additional sexual assault allegations from the same girl.

• Gunman robs Bull's Corner
St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's deputies are searching for an armed robber who held up an employee inside one of LaPlace's most famous restaurants.

• Jeff board defers vote on magnet grades
If a gifted student scores a D or an F in Latin or physical education, but has Bs and As in every other subject, should that student automatically get booted from a Jefferson Parish magnet school?

• Kenner council toughens law on building truck stops
A unanimous Kenner City Council on Thursday restricted where trucks stops can be built.

• Kids sought for toy fund giveaway
Today is the kickoff of the 113th annual Times-Picayune Doll and Toy Fund, and officials are hoping for a robust turnout of kids at the Dec. 6 distribution at the Louisiana Superdome.

• Man gets 40 years in rape of girl, 4
A Hammond man who authorities say raped a 4-year-old girl last year while visiting relatives in Destrehan pleaded guilty to forcible rape and was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday.

• Man gets 93 years for teen assaults
More than three years after he was convicted of getting teenage girls drunk and taking advantage of them sexually, a Metairie man was sentenced Thursday to 93 years in prison.

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ODDS AND ENDS

• School panel agrees to put grades 2-5 in new elementary
St. Tammany Parish school officials on Thursday approved a recommendation to house grades two through five at the new elementary school near Madisonville.

• St. John aims for good bond rate
St. John the Baptist Parish school officials are optimistic that bonds to finance construction projects will sell at a low interest rate.

• Workers accidentally damage sewer line
The 900 block of Vintage Drive in Kenner became a mucky mess Thursday after workers installing a fiber optic cable for AT&T damaged a major sewer line.

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• Police seek help finding stolen Toyota
New Orleans police are asking the public to help find a stolen white, two-door 1999 Toyota Camry that "may be involved in other crimes."

• Absentee voters eke out win for Maple Area plan
Although election returns Tuesday night showed that voters had narrowly rejected the proposed Maple Area Security District in Uptown New Orleans, the late addition of absentee ballots reversed the result, pushing the proposal to victory by a margin of 600 to 597.

• Black voters boosted Cannizzaro into office
Leon Cannizzaro swept the race for Orleans Parish district attorney by doubling his vote totals in majority black neighborhoods and winning wider appeal across the city, a poll analysis shows.

• Board to vote on schools overhaul
The Orleans Parish School Board likely will vote to support a revised public schools facilities master plan tonight, bringing the sweeping construction and renovation plan a step closer to reality.

• Body turns up behind motel
The body of a man was found Wednesday afternoon behind the Green Springs Motel next to the Little Bogue Falaya River near Covington.

• Catholic Charities worker pleads guilty to stealing
A woman who was the primary Catholic Charities case manager for federal homeless housing aid pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing the money and splitting it with others.

• Causeway panel cleared of illegality
The state inspector general's office has suspended its three-month-old investigation into the Causeway Commission after finding that complaints brought against the agency were not valid.

• Covington taking cash again for fees, utility bills
Your cash ain't trash anymore at Covington City Hall when it comes to paying utility bills and fees.

• Early ballots swamp parish
As election results from St. Tammany Parish's 158 precincts were posted Tuesday night, local election officials continued to work feverishly in a locked room tallying the unprecedented 18,404 early ballots that were cast.

• Five arrested in car burglaries
Investigators have arrested a Metairie man and four juveniles in a rash of Metairie vehicle burglaries that netted about $5,000 worth of property, including a police assault rifle and a shotgun, according to authorities.

• Florida man guilty in mailed threats
A Florida man admitted Wednesday that he sent threatening letters to both New Orleans City Councilman Arnie Fielkow and former District Attorney Eddie Jordan and now faces federal prison time.

• Gusman asks city for more money
Criminal Sheriff Marlin Gusman asked the City Council to replenish a $4.7 million cut in next year's proposed budget for his operations, saying the city's payment already fails to cover the costs of incarcerating about 2,400 people every day.

• IMPROVEMENTS AHEAD
St. John the Baptist Parish School Board President Gerald Keller said voters graded the district's tax propositions and gave them an A-plus.

• Judicial vacancy falls to Jeff voters
Busy with her work as a poll commissioner in Kenner on Election Day, Dee Dunn said she didn't fully realize until Wednesday the implications of Judge Greg Guidry's election to the state Supreme Court.

• LaPlace driver killed in River Road wreck
State Police said a 47-year-old LaPlace man has died of injuries he suffered after driving his pickup into oncoming traffic on River Road in Garyville.

• Litter law may target business owners
A St. John the Baptist Parish Councilwoman wants parish businesses to start cleaning up behind themselves.

• Meeting to focus on library for Paradis
A town hall meeting to discuss when and how to build a new St. Charles Parish library in the Paradis area will be held Nov. 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the J.B. Martin Middle School, the parish's library board decided Tuesday.

• No action taken on school buildings
The Jefferson Parish School Board delayed voting on a $15 million capital spending plan proposed by the district's administration Wednesday, after one board member questioned most projects in the list during a heated and lengthy diatribe directed at various board members and administrators.

• Official who cursed constituent not charged
St. Tammany Parish School Board President Neal Hennegan did not break any laws last week when he cursed at an Abita Springs parent after a heated board meeting, Covington Police Chief Richard Palmisano said Wednesday.

• Roussel tells state to release test scores
Angry over implications that they have done something underhanded, Jefferson Parish school officials Wednesday demanded that the Louisiana Department of Education release the system's school performance scores Friday as scheduled.

• State agrees to act as SELA broker
At an emergency meeting Wednesday, the state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority reluctantly agreed to enter a breach between Jefferson Parish and the Army Corps of Engineers should the two remain at odds over federal money for drainage projects in the parish.

• UNO talk looks at new U.S. regime
The future of European relations with the new U.S. administration will be the subject of a midday lecture Tuesday by a member of the scientific staff of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs.

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• DWI ARRESTS
This list of people booked with driving while intoxicated and related charges was provided by the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff's Office.

• Educator sees blurring of color line
Harold Johnson Jr. smiled, thinking about his grandma.