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The FDA said full clinical information about the patients is still being gathered, but it suggested some of the problems were infections and that "at least one of these infections appears to be fungal in nature." The FDA has since stepped up its oversight of pharmacies that compound drugs tailored to specific patient needs.
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BATON ROUGE, La.-- A new 2 cent monthly tax on cellphones aimed at helping provide services for people with hearing impairment won the support Thursday of the Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee.
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BATON ROUGE, La.-- The Louisiana attorney general's office said a special grand jury was selected Thursday to look into possible criminal activity involving a $200 million Medicaid contract awarded by Gov.
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District Judge Susie Morgan's decision to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. City officials last year reached the agreement with the Justice Department.
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LONDON, May 24- A group of accountancy professors is backing BP's fight to cap the U.S. oil spill compensation payouts it has to fund as the cash outflow threatens to add billions of dollars to its bill for the disaster.
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BATON ROUGE, La.-- A week after rejecting a bill that would have prohibited employers from paying unequal wages for the same job based on gender, the Louisiana Senate reworked the proposal Wednesday to apply only to state employees. Murray, D- New Orleans, said women in Louisiana routinely make less than men who perform the same jobs.
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LONDON, May 23- A group of U.S. accountancy professors is backing BP's fight to rein in compensation it has to pay for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which is threatening to add billions of dollars to its growing bill for the disaster.
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*Delta eyes chances to ship jet fuel to Midwest markets. And it expect costs will fall further as Delta ramps up supplies of cheap crude to the refinery from the Bakken play in North Dakota.
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BATON ROUGE, La.-- Louisiana lawmakers have delayed the start date of Gov. With a 35-0 vote Wednesday, the state Senate gave final legislative passage to a one-year suspension of the law that had been slated to take effect in July. With the delay, it will apply to workers hired after July 1, 2014 _ if the law is upheld by the Supreme Court.
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BATON ROUGE, La.-- A proposal in Louisiana to ban employers and schools from demanding access to personal online accounts has been scrapped. Ted James, D- Baton Rouge, ran into concerns in the Senate that he said Wednesday can't be worked out before the session ends June 6.
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SEATTLE-- It's hard to miss the enormous 20- foot- wide American flag on the side of Richard Ormbrek's home. This is actually the second major art project that Ormbrek has put on the house he shares with brother-in-law Bruce Edenso.
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*Delta eyes chances to ship jet fuel to Midwest markets. And it expect costs will fall further as Delta ramps up supplies of cheap crude to the refinery from the Bakken play in North Dakota.
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BATON ROUGE, La.-- The Louisiana Public Service Commission will reconsider a decision to shelve a planned statewide energy efficiency program, after a lawsuit challenged the commission's previous handling of the issue.
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CNBC has been ranking all 50 states for competitiveness since 2007. This year's report comes as states continue to get back in fighting shape—fighting for jobs, that is.
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We score all the states on 55 measures of competitiveness and 10 categories, from the cost of doing business to technology and innovation.
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BATON ROUGE, La.-- Louisiana's utility regulatory agency will reconsider a decision to shelve a planned statewide energy efficiency program.
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NEW ORLEANS-- Louisiana's state-regulated casinos all won less money in April than in March. April winnings totaled $196.4 million, up $4.9 million from April 2012 _ before the L'Auberge of Baton Rouge opened. Harrah's New Orleans took in $25.8 million, 18.3 percent below March and 3.9 percent below April 2012.
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COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich.-- Operators of the idled Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in southwestern Michigan say repairs to a tank that leaked slightly radioactive water into Lake Michigan will take until early summer to complete. New Orleans- based Entergy Corp. idled the plant May 5 after operators found a tank leaking faster than regulations allow.
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WASHINGTON, May 20- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has authority to try to speed up the process for installing wireless communications towers when local governments have been slow to act.
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May 18- Texas has joined the crowd of Gulf of Mexico states to file suit against BP Plc, Halliburton Co and others for their role in one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history. Texas joins four other states that have sued BP and other companies in connection to the spill: Florida and Mississippi filed complaints last month, while Alabama and Louisiana did in 2010..