U.S. | Fri Nov 21, 2014 3:51pm EST. By Laila Kearney | NEW YORK. NEW YORK New York City's Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was celebrated on Friday as an engineering marvel on the 50th anniversary of its opening, but a proposed toll increase for the longest suspension bridge in the United States put a damper on the birthday party.
Walker is a town in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 4,801 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area. Originally Milton Old Field, it was founded by Michael Milton. http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/livingston/history/town/walker.txt. in 1861. Walker is located at 30Â°29â²22â³N 90Â°51â²46â³W / 30.48944Â°N 90.86278Â°W / 30.48944; -90.86278 (30.489423, -90.862872).
Avoyelles is a parish located in central eastern Louisiana near the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers. As of the 2010 census, the population was 42,073. The parish seat is Marksville. The parish was created in 1807, with the name deriving from the French name for the historic Avoyel people, one of the local Indian tribes at the time of European encounter. Today the parish is the base of the federally recognized Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe, who have a reservation there. The tribe has a land-based