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Four years ago, as nearly 5 million barrels of oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, desperate cleanup crews applied dispersants to break up the oil that people worried would have profoundly negative effects on coastal wetlands and wildlife.

Four years ago, as nearly 5 million barrels of oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, desperate cleanup crews applied dispersants to break up the oil that people worried would have profoundly negative effects on coastal wetlands and wildlife.

When LSU economist and Revenue Estimating Conference member Jim Richardson conducted his first major tax study in 1987, he was pleased to discover it had a great shelf life.

It was an outdoor rock festival that almost wasn’t -- and in retrospect should not have been. It was the “Celebration of Life” at Cypress Pointe Plantation in McCrea, scheduled from June 21-28, 1971.

About two of every 100,000 Louisiana women were murdered by men in 2012 and almost all knew their attackers, putting the state in the top 10 of states, a report compiled by the Violence Policy Center shows.