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U.S. judge to block plan to lift COVID border restrictions for migrants

A federal judge in Louisiana said on Monday that he intends to rule that U.S. authorities cannot immediately proceed with plans to lift pandemic restrictions that empowered U.S. agents at the Mexico border to turn back migrants without giving them a chance to seek asylum.

Reuters

She Says Her Son Died After Smoking Insecticide While He Was Supposed To Be on Suicide Watch. Now She's Suing.

The lawsuit says there have been multiple deaths from neglect and poor suicide prevention policies at the Louisiana prison where Javon Kennerson died.

Reason

Girl, 4, dies after being forced to drink whiskey by her grandmother, Louisiana police say

A Louisiana woman who wanted to teach her 4-year-old granddaughter a lesson about drinking forced her to drink half a bottle of whiskey, police in Baton Rouge said.

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More confederate symbols fading in Louisiana

A round patch of New Orleans green space where a larger-than-life statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E

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Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw has a pitching doppelganger in single A

LOS ANGELES — Will Dion was a high school sophomore pitcher in Louisiana struggling to throw strikes when his pitching coach had an idea.

Los Angeles Times

As Europe jilts Russian gas, biggest US exporter puts on a high-tech show

Deep in Louisiana’s bayou country, 18 maroon canisters discharge clear, odorless methane into the air as hard-hatted engineers patrol wind gauges, solar panels and a laser surveillance system shooting beams at mirrors.

Tribune News Service

Department Of Energy Approves $107M Loan To Tesla Graphite Supplier

Syrah Technologies plans to produce enough natural graphite-based active anode material in Louisiana for approximately 2.5 million electric vehicles by 2040.

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Jarvis Landry to make free agency visit with Saints

Former LSU wide receiver Jarvis Landry set to make free agency visit with Saints, consider return to Louisiana, via @RossJacksonNOLA:

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TPC Louisiana Green Fees: How Much It Costs To Play Zurich Classic Of New Orleans Venue

It’s refreshingly easy to book a round at the host course of the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans - here are the details

Golf Monthly

Louisiana woman stabbed to death on Facebook Live

Earl Lee Johnson arrested for murder of 34-year-old Janice David

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Woman's fatal stabbing livestreamed on Facebook; man charged

A livestreamed fatal stabbing of a woman on social media led police to her body in an office building parking lot in Louisiana’s capital

The Independent UK

3 Black churches rebuilding in Louisiana after 2019 arson

Three years after an arsonist torched three small Black churches in rural Louisiana, rebuilding is well under way

The Independent UK

Tesla Graphite Supplier From Australia Bags $107M In Loans From Biden Administration

Australia-headquartered graphite miner Syrah Resources (OTC: SYAAF) has bagged $107 million in loans from the U.S. Department of Energy to expand its electric vehicle battery parts plant in Louisiana.

Benzinga

Gulf Coast, Mississippi River cities eager for flood funding

Cities on the Louisiana coast and Mississippi River are hoping the infrastructure law will bring badly needed funding to fortify levees, locks and other flood protection as climate change makes hurricanes stronger and wetter

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Biden 'cost of carbon' policy survives another legal hurdle

An effort by President Joe Biden's administration to account for potential damage from greenhouse gas emissions when creating rules for pollution-generating industries has survived another court challenge

Sports Illustrated

Brian Kelly, LSU and a $100 Million Gamble

The college football world has been fascinated by the coach’s move to the bayou, but time will tell if the partnership will yield what Kelly and LSU both covet: a national title.

The Guardian - US

EPA opens civil rights investigations over pollution in Cancer Alley

Agency will look at whether Black citizens’ rights were violated in polluted industrial corridor in Louisiana

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Karen Peterson resigns from Louisiana State Senate

Karen Peterson (D) resigned from the Louisiana State Senate on April 8 to focus on recovering from depression and a gambling addiction. She represented District 5 from 2010 to 2022. According to The New Orleans Advocate, a federal probe is being conducted into Peterson’s finances and gambling addiction.

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The Independent UK

Woman accused of hitting school security official with car and evading police is arrested

The school resource officer chased the woman for five miles before she got away

The Guardian - US

Back from the dead? Elusive ivory-billed woodpecker not extinct, researchers say

An expedition to the forests of Louisiana say extinction of bird, last definitively seen in 1944, has been exaggerated

Los Angeles Times

The video game of 2022 so far: 'Norco,' a masterpiece of interactive storytelling

The first time we see Norco, Louisiana, in all its pixelated glory, it's in an image that frames smokestacks and refinery equipment like a mechanical city. We're told there's a hum — an "endless sigh" — and we see a soft glow that cancels out the sun and the moon…

USA Today Sports Media Group

Arch Manning can get paid with NIL deals while still in high school

Louisiana has approved NIL deals for high school athletes, allowing Arch Manning to get paid well before Peyton and Eli were.

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Twenty-one states sue Biden administration over public transport mask mandate

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R), joined by 20 Republican and Democratic attorneys general, filed a lawsuit on March 29, 2022, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida that aims to end the Biden administration’s federal mask mandate for public transport. The mandate, issued by…

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ICYMI: Top stories of the week

The race to fill out the remainder of former Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett’s unexpired term was the only battleground among the races we covered on April 5. Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson defeated Robert Donovan. Although the race is officially nonpartisan, Johnson has said he is a Democrat. Donovan described himself…

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Police official on leave amid probe over Ronald Greene death

The second-in-command of Louisiana State Police has been placed on leave while an investigation continues into the wiping of his cellphone data during an investigation into Black motorist Ronald Greene’s death

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