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June 30, 2020 at 11:22 am

8 Shreveport police officers accused of excessive force

A Louisiana grand jury has accused eight police officers of using excessive force in arresting two men after a chase in January. A district attorney...

June 10, 2020 at 9:24 am

Pandemic hampers raising rare whooping cranes for the wild VIEW

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic is drastically reducing the number of young whooping cranes to be released this fall to help bring back...

May 20, 2020 at 10:04 pm

Cities find green ways to reduce storm floods VIEW

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For more than a century, New Orleans has depended on canals and pumps to get rid of stormwater in a city...

May 18, 2020 at 8:45 am

Sheriff: ‘Satan has taken over’ after 13 shot at memorial

Gunmen fired into a crowd of hundreds at a memorial for a Louisiana homicide victim, injuring 12 men and a woman, and people who were...

People enjoy a sunny day on the north campus of the University of Georgia in downtown Athens, Ga., Friday, May 1, 2020. Following Gov. Brian Kemp’s decision to end the state’s shelter-at-home order, people are out and about despite COVID-19 cases continuing to grow in Georgia. (Joshua L. Jones/Athens Banner-Herald via AP) GAATH902 GAATH902

April 30, 2020 at 10:17 pm

With quirks and restrictions, many states lift lockdowns VIEW

GRETNA, La. (AP) — More than a dozen states let restaurants, stores or other businesses reopen Friday in the biggest one-day push yet to get...

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April 27, 2020 at 11:15 am

Police: Man ambushed police; stood over body, kept shooting VIEW

A man accused of murder ambushed two officers sent to interview him about a killing hours earlier, then stood over a dead officer’s body while...

April 26, 2020 at 10:11 pm

In New Orleans, friends respond as virus claims a Zulu king VIEW

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If he had died in a normal time, Larry Arthur Hammond would have had a funeral befitting a Zulu king, with...

FILE – In this June 26, 2010 file photo, Plaquemines Parish Coastal Zone Director P.J. Hahn rescues a heavily oiled bird from the waters of Barataria Bay, La., which are laden with oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Ten years after the nation’s biggest offshore oil spill fouled its waters, the Gulf of Mexico sparkles in the sunlight and its fish are safe to eat. But scientists who have spent $500 million dollars from BP researching the impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster have found much to be concerned about. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) LAGH205 LAGH205

April 19, 2020 at 10:20 pm

Sparkling waters hide some lasting harm from 2010 oil spill VIEW

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten years after a well blew wild under a BP platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 men and touching...

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April 3, 2020 at 5:45 pm

New Orleans calliope tribute for jazz great Ellis Marsalis

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A tourist riverboat calliope blasted hymn and gospel tunes across New Orleans' French Quarter on Friday as a tribute to the...

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April 3, 2020 at 2:04 pm

New Orleans calliope tribute for jazz great Ellis Marsalis VIEW

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A tourist riverboat calliope blasted hymn and gospel tunes across New Orleans' French Quarter on Friday as a tribute to the...

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