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Three young computer hackers, including a Louisiana man, whose "botnet" known as Mirai virtually paralyzed chunks of the internet two years ago have received light sentences after helping the FBI with cybercrime and cybersecurity. Dalton Norman, 22, of Metairie, Louisiana; Paras Jha, 22, of Fanwood, New Jersey; and Josiah White, 21, of Washington, Pennsylvania, were sentenced Tuesday to five years of probation and 62-1/2 workweeks of community service in U.S. District Court in Anchorage.
From left, Speaker of the House Rep. Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Cameron Henry, R-Metairie, and Rep. Lance Harris, R-Alexandria, confer on legislation in the front of the House Chamber while the House is in recess after rejecting the Senate amendments to send HB1, the budget bill, to conference committee on the final day of the Special Legislative Session June 4, 2018, in Baton Rouge, La. Rep. Lance Harris, left, R-Alexandria, confers with House Speaker Taylor Barras, top, R-New Iberia, and House Clerk Alferd 'Butch' Speer, bottom right, in a scene during activity in the House of Representatives, Thursday, April 20, 2017.
Flood insurance -- the costs, benefits, risks and rewards of the federally backed program -- is a familiar topic to Louisianians. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Louisiana Flood of 2016 drove home its advantages as well as its outrages -- the latest being that as much as two thirds of the money paid by property owners for coverage goes to private insurance companies and the lawyers who are hired to fight claims.
Rep. Lance Harris, R-Alexandria, left, chats with House Appropriations chairman Rep. Cameron Henry Jr., R-Metairie, as Henry prepares to close on HB1, the state budget bill, Thursday April 19, 2018, in Baton Rouge, La. The budget bill passed 55-47.
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise rides a scooter as he arrives for the weekly House GOP conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Oct. 3. Scalise was released Saturday from a hospital after undergoing planned surgery. . "Rep. Scalise is a proud LSU alumnus and great supporter of the university.
House Republicans spurned tradition and elected one of their own, New Iberia Republican Taylor Barras, shown here at center, as speaker after Gov. John Bel Edwards won election. The House GOP caucus has promised to push for fiscal and tax reform, but leaders have been hesitant to put out their own comprehensive blueprint, drawing criticism from Edwards.
From left, Senate President John Alario, R-Westwego, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Cameron Henry Jr., R-Metairie, House Speaker Rep. Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Eric LaFleur, D-Ville Platte, meet in the front of the Senate Chamber during the last day of the regular legislative session Thursday June 8, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La..
The House Republican leadership talks about the GOP House budget plan Monday May 1, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La.. As Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Cameron Henry Jr., R-Metairie, left, watches, House Speaker TyTaylor Barras, R-New Iberia, right, talks about the budget process.
Louisiana state Rep. Cameron Henry, R-Metairie, said he expects TOPS to emerge fully funded in the budget bill that passes out of the Louisiana House Appropriations Committee Monday . State Rep. Cameron Henry, R- Metairie , expects Louisiana's popular TOPS college scholarship program to be fully funded when the budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 leaves the House Appropriations Committee on Monday .
Inside one of America's raucous town hall events, where Republican Senators are feeling the heat from anti-Trump organizers Republican U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy speaks during a town hall meeting in Metairie, Louisiana, U.S. February 22, 2017. Many in the 200-strong crowd packed into a library meeting room in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans, on Wednesday weren't listening to Cassidy plod through PowerPoint slides about his new Patient Freedom Act of 2017, a "comprehensive replacement" bill for the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act, co-written with three other GOP senators.
People hold a rally outside Sen. Bill Cassidy's town hall meeting in Metairie, La., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. People hold a rally outside Sen. Bill Cassidy's town hall meeting in Metairie, La., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017.
Louisiana lawmakers officially began a special session dedicated to closing a $304 million midyear budget shortfall late monday, with Gov. John Bel Edwards pitching his plan and challenging Republicans who have opposed his agenda to come up with a better one. Edwards proposes using $119 million of the state's Rainy Day Fund, cutting $60 million from the state budget and using "budget adjustments" to close the rest of the gap.
The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a possible missing person in the water near the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, approximately 9 miles from Metairie on Sunday. Members from the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office located a vehicle in Lake Pontchartrain near a damaged guardrail on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway.