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Barring an eleventh-hour pardon, convicted murderer Antoinette Frank tonight will become the first death row inmate to be executed by Cajun injection, a lethal dose of butter, cayenne, garlic, and rosemary, in addition to a host of other “deadly Cajun spices.”
The Army Corps of Engineers may have overlooked 1,800 feet of Industrial Canal floodwall in Gentilly Woods that is in danger of failing because it was too busy stopping people who make fun of them, The Levee has learned.
WASHINGTON — The leadership of the House Financial Services Committee says it will reject a plan to amend a bailout plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to also include Bernie Mac.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of Mae’s! Third degree burns and first-degree fun. How droll.
Try The Levee's homespun crossword. Just like our recovery, it's a challenge, but it's also personally rewarding.
In a town of silly things, the July 12 Running of the Bulls in New Orleans or, as organizers have named their baby, “San Fermin in Nuevo Orleans,” in just two years is charging to the front of the pack. The New Orleans Levee was a proud, in fact, giddy sponsor of the 2008 San Fermin in Nuevo Orleans!
Amid recent super-villain attacks in Gotham City and the accompanying trend of justice by a vigilante “caped crusader,” New Orleans Mayor Nagin has signed off on an initiative to stop “superheroism” in the Crescent City. “I think it is clear that this city already has the only superhero it needs,” Nagin said, striking a pose on his desk, his chin thrust in the air with top members of his administration furiously fanning a billowing pillowcase-cape tied around his neck. “Are you talking about inspector general Robert Cerasoli?” one reporter asked.
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has decided that WWL-TV reporter Lee Zurik has skyrocketed from the person responsible for “hurting this (city’s) recovery” to actually being to blame for – as the mayor told The Levee – “everything.”
Officials are investigating reports that the lap dance Jefferson Parish police say state Sen. Derrick Shepherd was receiving in his home when they went to arrest him on a domestic battery charge was nothing more than a "welcome to the neighborhood" gift from Louisiana’s sex-scandal plagued U.S. Sen. David Vitter.
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