Author: Gerald Herbert
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Louisiana father kills 7 of his children plus another child in shooting at house, police say
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A gunman in Louisiana killed eight children, including seven of his own, and shot two other people Sunday in an early morning attack of domestic violence carried out across two houses, authorities said, shaking a Shreveport neighborhood in one of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings in more than two years. Those…
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Louisiana digging out after tornadoes
ARABI, La. • Louisiana National Guardsmen and other responders went door-to-door in some areas around New Orleans on Wednesday as the region dug out from overnight tornadoes, with Gov. John Bel Edwards declaring a state of emergency and calling the destruction “devastating.” Other tornadoes spawned by the same system caused so much damage in Texas…
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New Orleans takes down 1st of 4 Confederate statues
NEW ORLEANS — Workers in New Orleans removed the first of four prominent Confederate monuments Monday morning, becoming the latest Southern institution to sever itself from symbols viewed by many as a representation of racism and white supremacy. The Liberty Place monument, which commemorates whites who tried to topple a biracial post-Civil War government in…