SHREVEPORT, La. - Tom Arceneaux, a Republican, has defeated state Sen. Greg Tarver, a Democrat, to become the next mayor of Shreveport in a runoff election held Saturday.
BATON ROUGE - After the contraflow nightmare at LSU last weekend, the East Baton Rouge Alcoholic Beverage Control Board might have a solution: allowing bars to stay open for an extra hour.
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Sixty-three percent of the parish's voters who participated in Saturday's election refused to authorize a gambling operation near Slidell, according to unofficial but complete returns released by the secretary of state's office.