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FRANKLIN, La. (AP) - St. Mary Parish could be the site of the state's first commercial wind farm of energy-producing turbines under a plan by a Metairie company. The Advocate reports Southern States Renewable Energy is proposing a $40 million project that, under the current plan, would bring eight 498-foot-tall wind turbines to an isolated patch of coastal land near the Port of West St. Mary.

SANTA FE— Gov. Bill Richardson, goodfella? Richardson and a list of other prospective presidential contenders were in the laugh limelight Wednesday on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." In his popular "Jaywalking" segment, Leno flashed their pictures to passers-by at Universal Studios and asked who they were. Richardson, like the rest of the Oval Office possibles, didn't fare too well: The guy Leno showed Richardson's photo to thought the governor might be a character from the HBO TV series "The Sopranos." "Don't know. Looks like somebody from 'The Sopranos,' but I'm not sure who," the unnamed passer-by told Leno. "I'm...