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Golden Gate Petroleum to production test Louisiana oil well
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Golden Gate Petroleum (ASX: GGP) will soon participate in production testing of the Hensarling-1 well in the Napoleonville Project, Louisiana. A workover rig is scheduled to arrive today to run the completion operation and commence production testing from the Cris R III sands, which has 49 feet of net oil pay.Another 31 feet of net pay was intersected in ...
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Obama U.S. will keep deploying drones
Drone strikes are a necessary evil, but one that must be used with more temperance as the United States' security situation evolves, President Barack Obama said in a counterterrorism speech ...
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JPSO Former Coca-Cola employee stole nearly $9000 from vending machines
Police say a Coca-Cola supervisor reported severalCoca-Cola vending machines at various locations in Jefferson Parish continually coming up short of money during inventory in September ...
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Senate rejects move to stop Common Core standards
The Louisiana Senate has killed a resolution that sought to keep the state from using a set of uniform national standards for public school testing, called Common Core ...
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NOAA 2013 hurricane season to be ‘active’ or ‘extremely active’
The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1st to November 30th. The National Weather Service defines a hurricane as "an intense tropical weather system ...
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Movie Review
Paranormal Activity 2
It was inevitable that Paranormal Activity 2, the sequel to Oren Pelis near-brilliant low-budget horror phenomenon from last year, would be highly derivative since the materials appeal lies entirely in conveying old-school haunted house chills via the intimately f ... ...
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Slideshow Termite swarms surrounded the New Orleans area Wednesday night
WDSU anchor Scott Walker proclaimed a termite-apocalypse on Twitter Wednesday night, and a few viewers sent him some photos of the swarms around ...
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Obama says US at crossroads in terror fight
President Barack Obama in a major counterterrorism speech Thursday defended the American drone program, saying that despite the controversies around it, the strikes are legal and save ...
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JPSO arrests man in connection with Monday night Harvey slaying
Casbon was shot in the chest Monday night just before midnight at 3832 Cimwood Drive in Harvey. He was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead at about 3:30 a.m. ...
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Police 2 additional arrests in UK hacking death
Police made two additional arrests Thursday as part of their investigation into the slaying of a soldier killed in Woolwich, London Metropolitan police said on the department's official Twitter ...
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Jefferson Hills pizza shop owner waives hearing
Pleasant Hills Magisterial District Judge Pat A. Capolupo ordered a formal arraignment for Bethany Verlich, 32, on June 11 at 11 a.m. at the Allegheny County courthouse in ...
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Hotel Review
Le Meridien Noumea, New Caledonia
This deluxe hotel is reputedly the finest in New Caledonia. The drive from Tontouta international airport is 45 minutes and ...
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