For years, Black residents of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, have voiced complaints about abuses and a lack of accountability in its Sheriff’s Office. Unlike in neighboring New Orleans, no one has stepped in to help.
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A September 20 letter from the advocacy group Promise of Justice Initiative addressed to Gov. John Bel Edwards detailed poor conditions, neglect and violence that the Orleans Parish Prison evacuees said they experienced. -
Louisiana’s abortion clinics are struggling to keep up with an influx of patients across the state border, after Texas enacted a six-week abortion ban. Louisiana lawmakers could consider passing a similar law.
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The message was clear Saturday: New Orleans residents want their trash picked up, and they will walk through rain and lightning to get their point across.
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Residents in parishes hit the hardest by the Category 4 Hurricane Ida could see federal relief for housing payments and repairs, officials announced Friday during a visit with U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge.
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It’s been nearly three weeks since Hurricane Ida battered New Orleans, and while power has been restored to the city and businesses are closer than ever to reopening to pre-Ida standards, residents are still waiting for routine trash pickups.
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Nicholas has been downgraded to a tropical depression, but forecasters and public officials warn that the system could bring heavy rains and dangerous flooding to south Louisiana through the weekend.
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Louisiana juvenile advocates question whether youth transfer was legal
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The team will become the Cleveland Guardians in 2022 after a long push to abandon a name Indigenous activists fought for years to change.
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A Facebook page reportedly called on the international community to "extend a hand of friendship" to the Taliban. But Ghani's verified Twitter page said the Facebook account had been hacked.
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A jury found John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in 1982. On Monday, his lawyer said the "momentous event" of Hinckley's full release in June is appropriate and required by the law.
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Cheney expressed regret over her earlier opposition to same-sex marriage, a stance that caused a rift within her own family.
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"Man, I love Detroit. I'm thinking about getting a place here," Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker said after hitting his latest game-winning field goal from more than 60 yards.
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