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Here is the latest Louisiana news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT
A Lake Charles attorney has been nominated for a federal judgeship. Sens. Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy said Monday that James D. Cain Jr. was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as a U.S. district judge for the Western District of Louisiana in Lake Charles.
Warren: Criminal justice system ‘racist’…’front to back’
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At Netroots Nation, Democratic White House hopefuls balance messages of unity, rebellion
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks in a sit-down conversation styled event with Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La, at Dillard University in New Orleans, Aug. 3, 2018. Warren was among the Democrats appearing at the Netroots Nations gathering.
Promised repairs to New Orleans’ streets far behind schedule, Cantrell found
Crews repair roads and drainage on Lemans St. and Beaucaire St. in the Village de l'Est neighborhood in New Orleans East. The work is part of a $3.6 million project from a pool of $2 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency money, which the city received in 2016 for streets and subsurface infrastructure damaged during the Hurricane Katrina federal levee failures in 2005.
New Orleans native in the running to succeed Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court
Amy Coney Barrett, center, alumna of the year for St. Mary's Dominican High School in New Orleans, is seen with Kathleen McGlone '98, left, outgoing president of the Dominican Alumnae Association; and Dominican President Cynthia A. Thomas, right. Amy Coney Barrett, center, alumna of the year for St. Mary's Dominican High School in New Orleans, is seen with Kathleen McGlone '98, left, outgoing president of the Dominican Alumnae Association; and Dominican President Cynthia A. Thomas, right.
Stephanie Grace: Scalise-Richmond buddy act offers these lessons for Washington, Baton Rouge
Majority Whip Steve Scalise scores on a wild pitch thrown by Cedric Richmond during a Congressional baseball game. Scalise can be seen wearing a uniform from Archbishop Rummel High School, his alma mater.
Our Views: Images of children being taken from parents at U.S. border gut-wrenching to watch
Protestors clash with law enforcement outside the Ernest Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La. Monday, June 18, 2018 after U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III spoke at the National Sheriffs' Association Opening Session.
Tammy Savoie, retired Air Force colonel, running for Congress against Steve Scalise
Tammy Savoie, a retired Air Force psychologist, is taking on U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise in the Nov. 6 election. She's the fourth candidate in Louisiana's 1st Congressional District race but the first who is a not a married man with a computer programming background.
Former VP Al Gore warns of climate change to Collision crowd but says people can change, too
Former Vice President Al Gore speaks about the environment and a sustainable economy at the Collision Conference, a technology conference, at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La. Tuesday, May 1, 2018.
Why go backwards by hiring Warren Riley? | Opinion
Has New Orleans already forgotten how much anguish -- and civil liability -- a dysfunctional police department can cause a city? Or how easy is it to slide back into the dynamics that cause routine and deadly violations of constitutional rights and make officers' lives more difficult? Those are just some of the questions with which Mayor-elect LaToya Cantrell will have to contend if she decides to appoint Warren Riley as the director of homeland security, an influential position over law enforcement in the city.
Our Views: Let voters decide fate of jury rule
Calvin Duncan poses for a photo with two stacks of legal paperwork filed under "Notification of Direct Appeal Decision" and Non-unanimous Jury Verdict issues" in his Central Business District office in New Orleans, La., Friday, Feb. 23, 2018. Duncan is a former Angola inmate who is pushing the United States Supreme Court, through repeated petitions on behalf of inmates convicted on non-unanimous jury counts, to overturn the state's unusual law allowing murder convictions of a 10 to 2 jury serious felony cases.
AP investigation: Doctors keep licenses despite sex abuse
An Associated Press investigation finds that even as Hollywood moguls, elite journalists and politicians ... An Associated Press investigation finds that even as Hollywood moguls, elite journalists and politicians have been pushed out of their jobs or resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct, the world of medicine... An Associated Press investigation finds that even as Hollywood moguls, elite journalists and politicians have been pushed out of their jobs or resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct, the world of medicine is more forgiving.
Wendy Vitter won’t say if Supreme Court was right to outlaw segregated schools
Wendy Vitter, testifying Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee with her husband, former Sen. David Vitter, R-La., at right, said 'separate but equal' public education was immoral policy, but she would not say whether the Supreme Court was right to outlaw it. President Donald Trump has nominated her to be a U.S. District Court judge in New Orleans.
With high water rolling down the river, Army Corps begins opening Bonnet Carre Spillway
The first bay is opened at the Bonnet Carre Spillway as it is opened by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Norco, La. Thursday, March 8, 2018, to relieve flooding risk down river in New Orleans where the Mississippi River is expected to reach flood stage at 17 feet later in the week.
Failed legislative special session: Nearly $1 million ‘down the drain,’ one La. lawmaker says
Legislature meets in special session to address the state's fiscal crisis Monday March 5, 2018, in Baton Rouge, La. Speaker of House Rep. Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, lower left, announces the vote to call HB8 off the calendar which was authored by Rep. Walt Leger, D-New Orleans, which was 49-49 and thereby defeated.
Lanny Keller: Budget crisis threatens economic progress
The Daily State-Times of Baton Rouge bannered the news in 1909: "Five Million Dollar Company to Build Two Million Dollar Plant Here." The front page hangs in The Advocate's Baton Rouge office today.
Louisiana Republicans elect first new leader in 14 years
Newly-elected Republican Party of Louisiana Chairman Louis Gurvich speaks to the state GOP's governing body, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018, in Baton Rouge, La. Newly-elected Republican Party of Louisiana Chairman Louis Gurvich speaks to the state GOP's governing body, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018, in Baton Rouge, La.
Man imprisoned for 23 years files suit against New Orleans D.A.’s office
Almost a year after charges against him were formally dropped in a 1992 crime spree, a man who spent more than 20 years behind bars is seeking damages from the New Orleans district attorney's office. But he was freed in the face of evidence that then-District Attorney Harry Connick's assistants failed to turn over information indicating his innocence.
More New Orleans airport travelers are showing up with guns in their carry-on, TSA says
A range of items intercepted in 2017 by the Transportation Security Administration at Lous Armstrong International Airport sit on a table at the airport Friday Dec. 15, 2017. in front of a table with a sampling of the roughly two-tons of illegal items intercepted at New Orleans airport security lines this year.