BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards says his LGBT-rights protection order is a statement that Louisiana doesn’t discriminate. Attorney General Jeff Landry calls it executive overreach. A Baton Rouge judge hears the arguments Tuesday as he decides ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Authorities in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, says a man who fatally shot a woman and ran over two bystanders with his car before crashing into an ambulance died following a shootout with sheriff’s deputies. Maj. Bryan ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police say a 32-year-old Baton Rouge woman has been arrested after she held a knife to her husband’s throat and hit him with a Thanksgiving turkey during an argument in their kitchen. The Advocate reports ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lottery officials say one tickets sold in Tennessee won Saturday’s $420.9 million Powerball drawing. The top prize for Wednesday’s drawing will be $40 million. There was no big winner in the Louisiana Lotto and ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Police had already increased patrols in New Orleans’ bustling French Quarter before gunfire erupted early Sunday, leaving one man dead and nine other people wounded in a tourist district famed for its bars, bright lights and ...
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KEVINISHA WALKER, The Courier HOUMA, La. (AP) — It’s been several years since “Beasts of the Southern Wild” was filmed in Terrebonne Parish. Sure, Hollywood South certainly brings the latest stars, television shows and films to New Orleans. But ...
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Unbelievable new information has been uncovered in the wake of the Shreveport City Hall meltdown. The absence of leadership became apparent when certain decades-long city purse grafters, Scott Pernici and Michael Wainwright (along with a few others), decided they wanted ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — State auditors said they couldn’t tell if the Louisiana attorney general’s office properly spent nearly $25 million because of inadequate documentation. A review from the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office released Monday found the department couldn’t ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU-Alexandria has a new chancellor. LSU President F. King Alexander announced in a news release Tuesday Guiyou Huang will take over the chancellor’s post on Jan. 1. Huang is currently the senior vice president for ...
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MONROE, La. (AP) — All of the officers assigned to Louisiana State Police Troop F in Monroe have received an early Christmas gift. The News-Star reports (http://tnsne.ws/2fZdcT3 ) Bunzy and Lynn Bryant donated new vests which feature ceramic plates that ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Southern University police say a suspect is in custody following a shooting that occurred on campus in Baton Rouge. In a statement early Friday, police say a male victim was critically wounded in the shooting ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Dillard University police officer fired his gun at a fleeing vehicle, which he says tried to run him over. Dillard University said in a statement that the incident began Thursday morning after the officer responded ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested a former deputy on charges of theft and malfeasance in office. The sheriff’s office, in a news release, says an arrest warrant accused Edward Moore of obtaining fuel from ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans gang leader recently sentenced to life in federal prison for crimes including three murders might get assigned to a prison relatively close to home. A federal judge has recommended that 40-year-old Telly Hankton ...
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MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards is planning an $18 million cut to public colleges to help close a state budget deficit, only months after higher education leaders thought they had escaped ...
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