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A local non-profit that offers low-cost spay and neuter services is changing locations. Spokeswoman Freda Powell says Robinson's Rescue is moving from its East Kings location -- to the 2500 block of Line Avenue

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On Monday, Bank of America announced that part of its plan to cut $5 billion in spending by 2014 includes the elimination of 30,000 jobs.

CEO Brian Moynihan made no mention of layoffs during an investor conference, and the bank says it expects the job losses to occur naturally through attrition and not rehiring when people vacate their positions.

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A popular ice cream company is expanding -- and that means a few more jobs for Northwest Louisiana. Blue Bell Creameries has expanded the company's transfer station in the 4700 block of Viking Drive in Bossier City to a 13,000-square-foot full-service branch

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The Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce has announced the recipients of the J. Pat Beaird Memorial Industry of the Year and Forum Small Businesses of the Year honorees. The Industry of the Year Award recognizes a corporate entity from the Greater Shreveort area for its outstanding business achievements. This year,

LSU Shreveport faculty member Emre Celebi, Ph.D. has been awarded a $155,895 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his proposal "RUI: Novel Enhancements to the K-Means Clustering Algorithm".

The project aims to develop novel approaches that address various shortcomings of k-means, the most widely used data clustering algorithm

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In a study that anyone who works in an office will heartily embrace, researchers found that spending small parts of the day wasting time on the Internet makes workers more productive because it acts to mentally refresh them.

“Browsing the Internet serves an important restorative function,” concludes the report from the National University of Singapore.

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Sci-Port: Louisiana’s Science Center will be closed on Mondays from September through February.  The Center will be open on the following Mondays that are regularly scheduled 2011-12 Caddo and/or Bossier school holidays: September 5, October 17, November 21, December 19, December 26, January 2, January 16 and February 20. 

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For travelers looking for the best travel deals, you can go wrong in choosing Dallas or New Orleans.  Both cities are near the top of the list of the least expensive travel hot spots.

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You might wonder why anyone would need a yacht worth more than 4 billion dollars. But as Rush Limbaugh puts it.....every American should be able to buy whatever they want with their own money. Check out what's on this high dollar boat.

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The prices we pay for gasoline in Louisiana continue to slowly rise. Louisiana AAA fuel analyst Don Redman says an internationally-weak U.S. dollar and the ongoing debt ceiling disagreement in Washington, D

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