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Parishioners subdue armed teenager at Louisiana children's service
ABBEVILLE, La. (AP) — Parishioners subdued a teenager with a gun who entered a Louisiana church during a service for dozens of young children, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. Officials in the Catholic diocese are weighing new safety protocols, including the possibility of someone...
Storms kill a pregnant woman in Louisiana, adding to the region's recent weather woes
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Storms that slammed several Southern states added to the region's recent string of weather-related destruction and death, including that of a Louisiana woman who was nine months pregnant. The woman was killed after Monday night’s storms knocked a tree into a...
Today in History: May 14, state of Israel is proclaimed
Today in History Today is Tuesday, May 14, the 135th day of 2024. There are 231 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 14, 1948, according to the current-era calendar, the independent state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv...
Louisiana jury convicts 1 ex-officer and acquits another in 2022 shooting death
GRETNA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana jury has convicted one former law enforcement officer and acquitted another in the 2022 shooting death of a man who was sitting in an SUV outside a house reputed for illegal drug activity. Issac Hughes, who was convicted Friday, and Johnathan Louis,...
'Where's Ronald Greene's justice?': 5 years on, feds still silent on Black motorist's deadly arrest
FARMERVILLE, La. (AP) — Mona Hardin has been waiting five long years for any resolution to the federal investigation into her son’s deadly arrest by Louisiana State Police troopers, an anguish only compounded by the fact that nearly every other major civil rights case during that time has...
First Guaranty Bancshares: Q1 Earnings Snapshot
HAMMOND, La. (AP) — HAMMOND, La. (AP) — First Guaranty Banchshares Inc. (FGBI) on Friday reported net income of $2.3 million in its first quarter. The bank, based in Hammond, Louisiana, said it had earnings of 14 cents per share. The bank holding company posted...
Louisiana court may reopen window for lawsuits by adult victims of childhood sex abuse
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Supreme Court agreed Friday to reconsider its recent ruling that wiped out a state law giving adult victims of childhood sexual abuse a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits. The law was passed by the Louisiana Legislature in 2021 and amended...
Civil War General William T. Sherman's sword and other relics to be auctioned off in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Bidders will fight with their dollars next week at an Ohio auction house for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-earth campaign across Georgia and coined the phrase “War is hell.” General William Tecumseh Sherman’s wartime sword,...
House Speaker Mike Johnson survived a motion to vacate. Here's why his job is far from safe
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Johnson's job isn't safe yet. In a stunning show of unity in the often divided House, Democrats joined a majority of Republicans on Wednesday to save the GOP speaker from an attempt by fellow Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to remove him from his...
A teen said a deputy threatened him as he filmed his mom's arrest. A jury awarded him $185,000.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A teenager who video-recorded his mother's forceful arrest by Louisiana sheriff's deputies in 2020 has been awarded $185,000 by a federal jury in a lawsuit filed over one deputy's attempt to interfere with the recording. De'Shaun Johnson was 14 when deputies...
