Louisiana Headlines

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A Roman Catholic inmate on death row in Louisiana will be entitled to watch a televised Mass twice a week under the terms of a court settlement. Today's settlement resolves a lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana filed against the state's Department of Corrections on behalf of Donald Leger, an inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A lawsuit accuses the Louisiana Democratic Party of failing to pay wages to a former employee. Plaintiff Kimberly Hulbert alleges that party officials didn't honor a February agreement to pay her $5,000 per month for a year, for fundraising and event planning.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - One of Governor Bobby Jindal's appointees to the state's top school board says the Jindal administration has asked her to quit the post. Tammie McDaniel, of Oak Ridge, says she has yet to make a decision whether she'll step down from the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The federal Department of Health and Hospitals is giving Louisiana $11.7 million in Recovery Act grants to 24 community health centers around Louisiana. The grants were announced yesterday, as a center in Winnfield opened.

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