“Today the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the City’s ability to control its property. This win today will allow us to begin to turn a page on our divisive past and chart the course for a more inclusive future.
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Sen. Bill Cassidy’s town hall: Fractious and furious constituents shout down the senator
Town halls around the country are fractious affairs these days for Republican members of Congress, but the crowd of hundreds that showed up at the Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library in Metairie today for a town hall with U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy was so raucous and furious that CNN began carrying it live. People began arriving around noon to line up and hold a parking lot rally before the doors opened at 3 p.m., so attendees already were tired of waiting when Cassidy arrived 22 minutes late to the 3:30 p.m. town hall.
How the Zulu coconut was saved from extinction
The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, the series continues with the state’s 1987 “Coconut Bill,” which preserved a true Mardi Gras original.
Our Views: Declaring a La. disaster once again
Harold Baldwin, a disabled veteran, holds his grandson Blake Baldwin, 5 months, while waiting to apply for FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, disaster recovery assistance at the East New Orleans Public Library, 5641 Read Blvd. in New Orleans, La. Monday, Feb. 13, 2017 near the path of Tuesday’s tornado.
The Latest: State of emergency in Louisiana after tornadoes
Gov. John Bel Edwards has declared a state of emergency for Louisiana after a severe storm moved across the state’s southeast corner, including the parishes of Ascension, Livingston, Orleans, St. James, St. Tammany and Tangipahoa. Edwards says he’s heartbroken to see Louisiana families suffering again.
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In this Jan. 21, 2017, file photo, protesters stage a candlelight vigil calling for impeached President Park Geun-hye to step down in Seoul, South Korea. The Pyeongchang Olympics have been drawn into the country’s biggest political scandal in decades.
The Latest: New Orleans family describes surviving tornado
The National Weather Service says at least three conf… . Eshon Trosclair holds her son Camron Chapital after a tornado tore through home while they were inside the New Orleans East neighborhood in New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.
New reports suggests La. could be doing more to help smokers quit
According to the recent State of Tobacco Control 2017 report from the American Lung Association, Louisiana received an F grade in several categories when it comes to helping smokers in the state. “While the report states that the State of Louisiana’s Tobacco Control programs are failing Louisiana smokers, it does not adequately reflect the service made available for no charge to Louisiana residents by the New Orleans-based Smoking Cessation Trust , that are successfully helping smokers quit.
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The Manhattan District AttorneyA s Office is looking into the decades-old suspicious death of a reporter who at the time was investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Newspaper columnist and TV game show star Dorothy Kilgallen, 52, was found dead of an alleged drug overdose in her Manhattan townhouse on November 8, 1965 – just weeks before a trip she had planned to New Orleans to meet with a secret informant relating to an 18-month investigation she was conducting about KennedyA s assassination for a tell-all book.
President Obama didna t pardon rapper C-Murder
In this Aug. 16, 2006, photo, Rapper Corey Miller, who once went by the stage name of C-Murder, arrives at the premier of Spike Lee’s new documentary on Katrina “When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts” in New Orleans.
Urban League of Louisiana annual Holiday Awards Luncheon honors 4 leaders
The Urban League of Louisiana hosted its fourth annual Holiday Awards Luncheon on Dec. 28 to honor four people for their leadership and contributions to New Orleans and the state. Held at Dooky Chase’s Restaurant, the party was hosted by former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial , who is now the National Urban League President and CEO, and Urban League of Louisiana President and CEO Erika McConduit .
Louisiana Political Hall of Shame welcomes two new members in 2016
Two Louisiana district attorneys were convicted in 2016, one at trial and one by guilty plea, at the federal courthouse in New Orleans. Walter Reed, right, discusses his conviction with reporters outside the federal courthouse in New Orleans.