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Editorial: Vote yes on Orleans Parish Sheriff millage renewal

The Advocate 24 Apr 2025
Voters in New Orleans are being asked on the May 3 ballot to extend a millage collected by the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office for 10 years. We recommend a “yes” vote ... .
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Gonzales, state police recover stolen motorcycles in New Orleans; suspect arrested

Gonzales Weekly Citizen 24 Apr 2025
Williams was arrested and booked into the Orleans Parish Corrections Center on two counts of possession of stolen property, according to LSP ... Police added the suspect was expected to be extradited to Ascension Parish for booking in the near future.
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Orleans Parish Man Indicted for Firearm and Narcotics Violations (United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana)

Public Technologies 24 Apr 2025
Orleans Parish Man Indicted for Firearm and Narcotics Violations ... NEW ORLEANS, LA - KEITH CALDWELL ("CALDWELL"), age 41, of New Orleans, was charged on January 31, 2025, in a recently unsealed, three-count indictment, announced Acting U.S.
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15 years after the BP oil spill disaster, how is the Gulf of Mexico faring?

Mongabay 21 Apr 2025
PLAQUEMINES PARISH, U.S.Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a finger pointing into the Gulf of Mexico ... Image courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Case of measles confirmed in greater New Orleans area

American Press 21 Apr 2025
The Louisiana Department of Health has confirmed one case of measles in an adult resident of Region 1 — comprised of Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, and St. Bernard parishes ... greater New Orleans area.
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In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ where black communities get all of the pollution, few of the jobs

Grist 17 Apr 2025
The Tulane study’s findings match what Cancer Alley residents have suspected for decades, said Joy Banner, co-founder of the Descendants Project, a nonprofit that advocates for Black communities in the parishes between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
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Child-killer Thomas Sanders, whose sentence was commuted by Biden, faces death penalty in Louisiana

New York Post 17 Apr 2025
A Catahoula Parish grand jury will seek the death penalty for Thomas S ... A Catahoula Parish grand jury will seek the death penalty for Thomas S ... However, Catahoula Parish District Attorney Bradley R.
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‘Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay’

Scheerpost 16 Apr 2025
— opened in Division C of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court, a high-ceilinged room with dark brown benches and tables, fake marble columns and fluorescent lights ... Charles Avenue in New Orleans,” Boyle said.
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Check out the top five stories from the Shreveport Times this week. Duck Dynasty to protests

Shreveport Times 12 Apr 2025
... led by Mike Johnson, support Trump's tariffs.A $4.2 billion low-carbon ammonia plant will be built in Ascension Parish.Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans are ranked among the unhealthiest U.S.
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”

ProPublica 12 Apr 2025
Charles Surgical Hospital in New Orleans ... — opened in Division C of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court, a high-ceilinged room with dark brown benches and tables, fake marble columns and fluorescent lights.
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A $421 million verdict against Blue Cross exposes how insurers try to control doctors

Alternet 12 Apr 2025
— opened in Division C of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court, a high-ceilinged room with dark brown benches and tables, fake marble columns and fluorescent lights ... Charles Avenue in New Orleans,” Boyle said.
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Who Would Marry Robert Durst?

New York Magazine 12 Apr 2025
Robert Durst and Debrah Charatan as seen during a visitation featured in The Jinx. Photo. Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly ... Photo.
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New Orleans council votes to send $10 million to city schools, again defying mayor

Beaumont Enterprise 11 Apr 2025
... sales taxes on behalf of other local governmental entities, the source of the legal dispute with the Orleans Parish School Board.
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