#louisiana

#louisiana

I believe you can find God's love everywhere, but it really shines in Louisiana. The Pelican State is home to the country's largest alligator population, with an estimated population of more than two million. God blessed our taste buds with Cajun flavors, he continued, shouting out a staple of his home state. God blessed our eardrums with Jazz music. God blessed our coasts with fish to catch, and our skies with ducks to hunt.

Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed Swamp Sweep that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and three people familiar with the operation. The deployment, which is expected to begin in earnest on Dec. 1, marks the latest escalation in a series of rapid-fire immigration crackdowns unfolding nationwide

Federal prosecutors have indicted five individuals in Louisiana, including current and former police chiefs, for a scheme involving bogus police reports that enabled immigrants to apply for U-visas in exchange for money.

The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion Project had been intended to rebuild upward of 20 square miles of land in southeast Louisiana to combat sea level rise and erosion on the Gulf Coast.

In Texas alone, there are more than 125,000 people without power Tuesday morning, mainly in the Houston area.

Tonnisha Mitchell, 43, allegedly assaulted Gene Hill, 42, with a bat during an argument, leading to his death after being hit by passing cars.

The new algorithmic scoring system has rendered many prisoners ineligible for parole, with about 13,000 individuals, nearly half of Louisiana's prison population, classified as moderate or high risk, significantly affecting their chances of reentry into society.