NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Weather Service counts at least eight tornadoes that hit Louisiana Monday. Survey teams conclude twisters damaged parts of Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Rapides and Tangipahoa parishes. The most powerful storm, rated EF-1 on the enhanced ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards tapped 15 people over the holidays to fill vacancies for Louisiana’s college management boards, many of them contributors to the governor’s campaign fund. He named six people to the 15-member Board ...
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OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — Louisiana has a new member of the state Supreme Court. Republican Jimmy Genovese, formerly an appeals court judge, was sworn in Tuesday to the seven-member high court at a ceremony in his hometown of Opelousas. He’ll ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s newest U.S. senator, Republican John Kennedy, has taken the oath of office as the latest term of Congress began. Also sworn in Tuesday were two new U.S. House members for Louisiana’s delegation: Republicans Clay ...
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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A former LSU football player is offering to pay anyone who returns his SEC Championship ring and other football mementos that were stolen from his Louisiana home. Seth Fruge was a walk-on special-teams player at LSU ...
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RESERVE, La. (AP) — A barge spilled about 500 gallons of diesel oil into the Mississippi River during a fuel transfer in Reserve, upstream from New Orleans. United States Coast Guard Lt. Brian Dochtermann tells NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune (http://bit.ly/2j4yDGU) that a ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal lawsuit claims sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a 27-year-old man in his southwest Louisiana home after investigators improperly obtained a warrant to search his residence for drugs. The Dec. 26 lawsuit accuses a ...
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THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — To address the struggling local economy, the South Louisiana Economic Council wants to help retain and expand area businesses and aggressively market the bayou region to new industries. That’s part of the economic development agency’s 2017-19 ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A five-day trade mission to Cuba for Gov. John Bel Edwards, Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain and other state workers cost the state $150,134. The Times-Picayune reports ( http://bit.ly/2iy1xid ) the single largest expense was the ...
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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A newly formed Shreveport environmental activist group is making plans to travel to Baton Rouge to protest an incoming pipeline that many worry would hurt the environment. North Louisiana for Climate Justice was created on Friday ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has named a new secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries after its former leader called it “a troubled state agency” and resigned abruptly. Edwards on Friday announced ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Water bills will rise by a few dollars to support safety tests on drinking water, state museums can start hiring police officers and regulations aimed at protecting the elderly from financial abuse are among the ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The operator of a New Orleans massage studio has been arrested following accusations of sexual battery by two female clients. NOLA.com/The Times Picayune reports (http://bit.ly/2ioWRuI) that court records show 52-year-old Norman Nail was arrested Dec. 22 ...
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NEW IBERIA, La. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a second person in connection to the death of a Jeanerette man. Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal tells local media that 18-year-old Brady Rogers was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder ...
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MONROE, La. (AP) — A Rayville man is in custody on a charge of negligent homicide after a reported accidental shooting of his cousin. The Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office says 34-year-old Bryant Silk is being held on $25,000 bond following ...
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