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At the direction of President Barack Obama, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is leading the federal government's effort to provide assistance and support to Louisiana, in response to recent flooding. President Obama received updates throughout the day from his team on current response and recovery efforts underway in close coordination with state, local, and tribal officials.
Emergency crews have rescued more than 7,000 people stranded in Louisiana by historic flooding that has killed at least three people and submerged whole communities, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Sunday, as the Gulf Coast braced for more rain and rising waters. Stranded residents have been pulled out of flooded homes and swamped cars in cities and towns across the southern part of the state, said Edwards, who has called for federal emergency relief funds.
I spent 15 years of my career and life traveling from northern Louisiana to Baton Rouge as a legislator, first as a state representative and then as a state senator. I dedicated my life to serving people, as a politician and as an attorney, and much of the state's business gets discussed, debated and determined in Baton Rouge.
The report says the fire stemmed from the simple, improper disposal of a cigarette in the couch on the second-floor exterior porch leading to the apartment at 198 Wilson St. Robert Streb and Jimmy Walker were forced to share a spotlight in the 98th PGA Championship.
UPDATE: Senate field swells to 17 candidates this morning The election is Nov. 8 Check out this story on thetowntalk.com: http://tnsne.ws/29XBjwY The Rev. Peter Williams, a Democrat from Lettsworth, said he plans to make history as the state's first black U.S. senator since 1872, when P.B.S. Pinchback was elected, but never seated.'
Donald Trump jumped on the opportunity to blast President Barack Obama once again while paying tribute to three police officers in Baton Rouge Three officers were confirmed dead and a further three were injured after a shooting at a gas station along Airline Highway in the Louisiana city on Sunday morning. One suspect is dead and law enforcement officials believe a further two may still be at large, a spokesman for the sheriff's office said.
California's secretary of state is expected to certify the results of the June primary election, when an estimated 8.5 million people, or 47.6 percent of registered voters, took part. The government is preparing to release a once-classified chapter of a congressional report about the attacks of Sept.
Mourners gather Friday to pay their last respects to a 37-year-old black man shot and killed in an encounter with two white police officers in Louisiana, a killing that helped fuel protests nationwide over the treatment of African-Americans by police. Alton Sterling was shot July 5 outside a Baton Rouge convenience store in an encounter with police that was caught on video.
Congressman Ralph Abraham, M.D., R-Alto, announced Monday that the U.S. House of Representatives passed his legislation to block an executive order from the Obama Administration that could drive up the costs of building in Louisiana communities. On Thursday, July 7, the House passed HR 5485, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act.
People are lined up to attend a campaign event with Vice President Joe Biden and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Friday in Scranton, Pa. Later the event was canceled because of the shootings in Dallas.
Mourners gathered for a vigil to commemorate a black father of five apparently shot to death while being held down by police in Louisiana, hours after federal civil rights investigators said they will probe the incident. Protestors gather in front of a mural of Alton Sterling on the wall of a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisianna where Sterling was apparently shot dead while being held down by police Lighting candles just before dusk, a crowd of hundreds gathered outside the Baton Rouge convenience store where 37-year-old Alton Sterling was shot dead by one officer after being pinned to the floor.
Body-armored and gripping a high-powered rifle, former Sheriff's Capt. Clay Higgins looks at the camera and leaves no doubt what he thinks of the young men alleged to be members of a violent Louisiana gang called the Gremlins.
Perhaps more than in any other state, the expansion of Medicaid to give thousands of Louisiana residents no-cost health insurance stands to have a profound impact on health care - whether it's better or worse than the system that was already established to cover the needs of the poor. Louisiana on Friday is set to become the 31st state in the country to expand Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act.
The former governor of Virginia was seen as perhaps the least competitive major candidate during the heat of the Republican primary process. Gilmore almost consistently placed last in polling and qualified to appear in only two debates until he ended his campaign in February.
Has prosecutorial misconduct become an epidemic in Louisiana? A number of national publications seem to think so. Nary a week goes by when there is not a story of some Louisiana prosecutor supposedly pursuing justice by breaking the law.