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By Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator

Criminal defendants’ right to waive jury trials will be more complicated in Louisiana after lawmakers passed new legislation at the request of ...

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The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans is working on securing hundreds of millions of dollars in tax incentives for its incoming headquarters hotel — a new Omni hotel worth $600 million. 

Officials say the hotel is key to the long term success of tourism in New O...

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Emanuel René “Manny” Sayles loved the banjo so much he played it in his sleep. He once said that without music, he would “grieve himself to death.”

Music was his life and the only life he wanted.

“I could have been a carpenter if I wanted. I could have been a bricklayer if I...

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A screening of a documentary about chemical pollution in St. John the Baptist Parish will finally move forward after it was abruptly canceled months ago due to what the event’s organizers said was pressure from the parish president.

The reversal came several days after a