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Will the Supreme Court Use a Louisiana Case to Gut the Voting Rights Act?  The New York Times Supreme Court conservatives poised to further gut the Voting Rights Act  CNN Supreme Court takes up Republican attack on Voting Rights Act in case over Black representation  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos Republicans could draw 19 more House seats after an …

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana state police have released video evidence in a deadly 2024 car crash that authorities contend was caused by reckless driving by Kyren Lacy, a former Louisiana State University football star who took his own life days before a grand jury was convened to review the case. The 11-minute video released Tuesday came in response …

“It was definitely touch and go whether this was all going to come together,” Victoria Rome, the director of California government affairs for the Natural Resources Defense Council, told me. “It was a lot of complicated policy to put forward in a relatively short time frame.” The package reauthorizes California’s signature cap and trade program, rebranded as “cap and invest,” …

An Olympic gold medalist is selling her $1.2 million mansion after her dreams of finding success in Louisiana faltered and she is forced to move back to Las Vegas amid a divorce from her longtime husband. Oksana Baiul, who represented Ukraine at the 1994 Winter Olympics in figure skating, said her “heart is broken” as she listed her Shreveport estate …

The Donald Trump-supporting Republican governor of Louisiana has asked for national guard troops to be deployed to New Orleans and other cities through fiscal year 2026, saying Monday that the state needs help fighting crime and praising the president’s decision to send the military to Washington DC and Memphis. Governor Jeff Landry asked for the Trump administration to support an …

Louisiana 911 services restored after statewide outage  wwltv.com 911 outage impacts multiple states after ‘series of fiber cuts,’ officials say  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos Service restored after widespread 911 outages impacted Mississippi and Louisiana, officials say  CNN AT&T reports 911 service ‘operating normally’ across Mississippi, Louisiana  WLBT 911 service restored in parts of Louisiana after statewide outage  KNOE Source link

911 service restored after outages in Mississippi and Louisiana  WAPT Widespread 911 outages affecting Mississippi and Louisiana, officials say  CNN 911 outage impacting much of Louisiana and Mississippi, officials say  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos AT&T reports 911 service ‘operating normally’ across Mississippi, Louisiana  WLBT 911 lines down in South Mississippi; Here’s who to call if you have an emergency  WLOX …

Louisiana and Mississippi are experiencing widespread outages of 911 emergency calling systems after reporting fiber cable damage, according to officials. The outages are impacting multiple parishes in Louisiana and include the state’s three largest cities, as well as several Mississippi counties and the capital city of Jackson, according to officials. A severed 911 fiber cable caused outages to have a …

HOLLY RIDGE, La. (AP) — In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world’s largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer. While the colossal project is impossible to miss in …

Kissing bug disease could persist in U.S. year-round. What does it mean for Louisiana?  NOLA.com Kissing Bugs in Virginia: Experts warn about rare but serious Chagas Disease risk  WDBJ7 ‘Kissing bug’ disease should be declared endemic in U.S., researchers say  WVXU What to know about ‘kissing bug disease’: Are the insects headed to N.Y.?  SILive.com Kissing Bug Disease Is Spreading; How To Stay Safe  CNN …