Associated Press
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Festival producer Quint Davis says this year's event would be the biggest ever, with the most food, crafts and bands in its 53-year history.
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The law was in effect for a several hours on March 19 because of a procedural order from the U.S. Supreme Court. But the court sent the case back to the appellate court for further consideration. The appellate judges blocked the law again.
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Investigators say 26-year-old Rashad Price of Slidell, Louisiana, is charged with murder in the killing of 25-year-old Jay Jackson of Decatur, Georgia.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson is at risk of being ousted. Hard-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia filed a motion to vacate on Friday during a House vote on a $1.2 trillion package to keep government open. Greene says it's a “warning” to the Louisiana lawmaker.
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Voices From the Front will also enable visitors to the New Orleans museum to ask questions of war-era home front heroes and supporters of the U.S. war effort — including a military nurse who served in the Philippines, an aircraft factory worker, and Margaret Kerry, a dancer who performed at USO shows and, after the war, was a model for the Tinkerbell character in Disney productions.
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The former law officers have admitted to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racially motivated torture. In a January 2023 episode, the group of six burst into a Rankin County home without a warrant and assaulted the men with stun guns, a sex toy and other objects.
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The justices are hearing arguments Monday in a lawsuit filed by Louisiana, Missouri and other parties accusing officials in the Democratic administration of leaning on the social media platforms to unconstitutionally squelch conservative points of view. The case originally was heard in Monroe, Louisiana in Federal Court
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Top-seeded Grambling (20-14) built a double-digit lead midway through the first half and led by as many as 18 points in the second. Jonathan Cisse scored 21 points and Deon Stroud added 16 for No. 3 seed Texas Southern (16-16), which entered seeking its fourth-consecutive automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.
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The New Orleans police chief says conditions at the department's aging headquarters are so deplorable that rats have munched on marijuana contraband in the evidence locke
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The body of John Barnett was found in a car outside a Holiday Inn on Saturday. suffering from what the Charleston County Coroner’s Office said appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was from Pineville, Louisiana