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New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then drug case gets tossed
When Kevin Smith was jailed on a drug charge in New Orleans in 2010, Blockbuster was still renting DVDs and President Barack Obama was still trying to pass his signature health care bill. Smith’s case never went to a jury. On Monday, 2,832 days after he was locked up, Criminal District Court Judge Tracey Flemings-Davillier ordered Smith’s release, bowing to an appeals court ruling that prosecutors had violated his right to a speedy trial.
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Man spends 46 years in prison for rape he didn't commit
A Louisiana man who has spent nearly 50 years in prison is expected to be released Wednesday, about two weeks after a judge overturned his conviction in the kidnapping and rape of a nurse. Wilbert Jones didn’t show any visible reaction when State District Court Judge Richard Anderson set his bail Tuesday at a mere $2,000. The judge previously said the case against Jones was “weak, at best” and that authorities withheld evidence that could have exonerated Jones decades ago.
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“Freedom Behind Bars - Angola Prison Rodeo” By Photographer Travis Gillett
Started in 1964, the Angola Prison Rodeo at Louisiana State Penitentiary provides inmates a moment of freedom. By Jeff Hamada.
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An unpaid $7 Waffle House bill leads Louisiana police to an L.A.-based identity theft ring
Police in Louisiana have uncovered a sophisticated, Los Angeles-based identity theft ring, thanks to two men who skipped out on their $7 Waffle House bill, authorities said. Waffle House employees called police Saturday, saying two men had stiffed the restaurant and driven away in a U-Haul van, Pearl River police said Thursday. Investigators were still taking statements at the restaurant when patrol officers spotted a U-Haul van parked at a nearby hotel, police said.
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Oil spills into Gulf of Mexico after underwater pipe bursts
Federal authorities are responding to an oil spill off the coast of Louisiana.
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Strippers, Insane Asylums, Assassination, and Termites: Inside the Insane History of the World’s Greatest White House Replica
Governor Huey Long was so anxious to get to the White House that he built his own in Baton Rouge. An assassin’s bullet cut short Long’s ambitions, but his gaudy knock-off survives. By William O’Connor.
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Louisiana Is In Seriously Big Trouble
Researchers from Tulane University in New Orleans have released a new study on the Louisiana and things are not looking good for the Child of the Mississippi.
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Impossible City: Photographs of New Orleans
Sometimes you see a picture and you can tell that something’s missing, but you don’t know what it is. By Tim Culvahouse with photos by Virginia Hanusik.
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The Booming Industry Emerging From Louisiana’s Vanishing Coast
Here’s how a shrinking state is paving the future of building. By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu.
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Louisiana Can’t Afford to Pay for Public Defenders, So Inmates Are Pleading Guilty
Michael Carter has spent more than a year and a half in jail waiting for a trial. Even still, the 27-year-old smiles easily when telling his story. His face is framed by an 8-by-4 inch window that separates the inmates at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison from their visitors. Like most people standing in the caged area of the visiting room, Carter is black.
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Tempers Flare Over Removal of Confederate Statues in New Orleans
For Malcolm Suber, the Confederate monuments that dot this Deep South city stand for white supremacy, pure and simple....For Frank B. Stewart Jr., a white New Orleans native, the city government’s plan to remove the statues...feels like an Orwellian attempt to erase history.
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Voting Rights on Trial on the Bayou
A federal lawsuit challenges a vestige of Jim Crow, and opens up new questions about the current state of the ballot. By Vann R. Newkirk II.
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Removal of the first of four New Orleans Confederate monuments begins with Liberty Place
Efforts to remove four Confederate monuments commenced early April 24, as crews and police surrounded the Liberty Place monument downtown around 2 a.m.
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The Keepers of the Light
New Orleans’s complicated history with the Mardi Gras flambeaux. By Rien Fertel. (Feb. 23, 2017)
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Disunion: The Terrifying Tigers
The Tigers were just a small subset of the 12,000 Louisiana soldiers in Virginia in 1861.
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Louisiana Agriculture Facing $110 million in Food-Related Losses
Flooding and frequent rainfall since has left Louisiana’s agriculture sector with an estimated $110 million in losses. Unfortunately, that number is likely to rise as the floodwaters recede.
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Planned, forgotten: Unfinished projects could’ve spared thousands from Louisiana flood
“Trey Poirrier and Jerry Gravois stood in waist-deep floodwater near the St. Amant Fire Department Monday morning trying, unsuccessfully, to reach a relative’s waterlogged home. Nearby, caskets were floating around the Methodist church. Volunteer boaters sailed by them with a rescued family of five, including three girls young enough to attend close-by Lake Primary School, also under water.” By Steve Hardy and David J. Mitchell.
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The Curse Of Julia Brown: Manchac Swamp’s Voodoo Priestess Haunts Louisiana After Killing a Whole Town
Louisiana’s Manchac Swamp is haunted by the ghost of Julia Brown, a Voodoo Priestess who cursed her entire village and took them all to the grave with her. By Dana Matthews.
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The Last Florida Indians Will Now Die
The Westward Plight of the Apalachee. By Justin Nobel.
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Remembering Slavery At Whitney
A Louisiana plantation that is an emotionally devastating museum of slavery. By Rod Dreher.
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