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Louisiana soccer team sues US after coach is denied entry
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The case involves a Louisiana soccer team, the coach it has recruited since 2018 and a presidential order aimed at curbing travel to stop the spread of COVID-19. It names the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Emb...
Aldon Smith wanted by Louisiana police following alleged 2nd-degree battery at a coffee shop
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The defensive end, who signed with the Seattle Seahawks last week, is wanted for allegedly committing second-degree battery at a coffee shop in the New Orleans area on Saturday. A bulletin posted by the St. Bernard P...
Two more bodies identified as search continues for missing crew of ship that capsized off Louisiana coast
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The bodies of two men found inside a commercial vessel that capsized earlier this week off the Louisiana coast have been identified. Lafourche Parish Coroner Dr. John King identified the two men as Anthony Hartford,...
Search operations continue overnight for the 12 people still missing from capsized ship off Louisiana coast
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Rescue crews will keep searching overnight for the 12 people still missing after a commercial vessel capsized Tuesday several miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana, according to the US Coast Guard. Six people we...
Power outages, storm damage slam Louisiana; search for commercial vessel in Gulf of Mexico continues
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LOUISIANA STORM PROMPTS COAST GUARD SEARCH OFF GRAND ISLE FOR ‘MULTIPLE PEOPLE IN THE WATER' Hazardous winds, lightning and ping-pong ball-sized hail came following days of tornadoes and flooding. Part of a Metairi...
A dozen people are missing after a commercial vessel capsized off Louisiana coast
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Six people were rescued and 12 others are missing after a commercial vessel capsized several miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana, officials said Tuesday. The vessel had 18 people on board, Lafourche Parish Presi...
Louisiana authorities find body in Mississippi River as search for missing LSU student Kori Gauthier continues
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The remains have not yet been identified. Gauthier’s car was found abandoned on a bridge spanning the Mississippi River last week with her wallet and phone still inside. The 18-year-old Opelousas native and education...
Louisiana man arrested in connection with cold case murder of Courtney Coco
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Police took David Anthony Burns, 43, of Boyce, La., into custody Tuesday afternoon and charged him with second-degree murder in the death of Courtney Coco. The Alexandria Police Department said Detective Tanner Dryde...
Texas, Louisiana sue Biden administration for ‘refusing’ to take criminal illegal immigrants
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"Federal law requires Defendants to take custody of many criminal aliens, including those with final orders of removal, those convicted of drug offenses, and those convicted of crimes of moral turpitude," the complai...
Louisiana holds elections to fill congressional seat formerly held by Biden official and replace Republican who died of Covid before swearing-in
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The first congressional elections of the 2022 midterm cycle are set for Saturday, when Louisiana voters go to the polls to fill a pair of vacancies in the state's House delegation. A Democratic battle is brewing i...
‘Unapologetically progressive’: Karen Carter Peterson fights to become first Black woman Louisiana sends to Congress
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Karen Carter Peterson wants to make history. The longtime Louisiana state senator is vying for the open seat once held by Cedric Richmond -- one that would propel her to become the first Black woman to represent the...
Louisiana ranks as the worst state for children during the Covid-19 pandemic, Save the Children says
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The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc for families across the US, as school closures and social distancing have made it difficult to provide for kids. But in Louisiana, families are faring worse than in an...
Three people killed, two injured, in shooting at gun store in Louisiana
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Three people were killed and two were injured in a shooting at a gun store in Louisiana on Saturday. Deputies were called to the scene at the Jefferson Gun Outlet in Metairie just before 3 p.m., Jefferson Parish She...
A Black sheriff’s deputy in Louisiana condemned police brutality and institutionalized racism. Then he died by suicide
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A Louisiana sheriff's deputy died by suicide on Monday after recording and posting to social media videos of himself condemning institutionalized racism and describing his struggle as a Black law enforcement officer...
Two women were killed in murder-for-hire plot gone wrong, Louisiana sheriff says
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Three men are facing murder charges after two women were killed -- including the sister of one of the men -- in a murder-for-hire plot gone wrong, according to Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Tim Soignet. During a press ...
A Louisiana cemetery told the family of a Black deputy he couldn’t be buried there because it was only for White people
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When Karla Semien went to a cemetery to pick out a plot where her late husband would be buried, it was as if she'd stepped back into the 1950's. Her husband Darrell Semien, a sheriff's deputy for Allen Parish, Louis...