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Democrat state Sen. Cleo Fields speaks during the swearing in of the Louisiana state legislature in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, Pool)

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Democrats look to longtime state Sen. Cleo Fields to flip Louisiana congressional seat blue
By SARA CLINE - Associated Press
Tue,07/30/24-4:31PM , 150 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Poised to flip a once reliably Republican congressional seat in Louisiana, Democrats’ are placing their hopes with state Sen. Cleo Fields, who has been a fixture in state politics for more than three decades and is looking to return to Congress.
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Body found of SU student reported missing in July; 3 arrested, including mother of deceased's child
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tue,07/30/24-3:28PM , 107 Reads
ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (AP) — Three suspects are in jail for allegedly luring a Southern University student to his death.
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Bernie Tiede, left, stands in court during day nine of his new sentencing trial, April 18, 2016, at the Rusk County Justice Center in Henderson, Texas. Tiede, the former mortician serving a life sentence for killing widow Marjorie Nugent in 1996, sued the Texas prison system for stiflingly hot conditions he said endangered his life. (Michael Cavazos/The News-Journal via AP, Pool, File)

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Former prisoners describe suffocating heat in Texas lockups as they plead for air conditioning
By JIM VERTUNO - Associated Press
Tue,07/30/24-2:27PM , 98 Reads
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Describing Texas prisons as so hot that inmates would cool off by splashing themselves with toilet water or faking suicide attempts to get moved to cooler medical areas, advocates on Tuesday asked a federal
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Passengers board an Amtrak train heading to New Orleans from Atlanta on Nov. 23, 2016. The federal government sued Norfolk Southern railroad on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, over chronic delays for Amtrak between New York and New Orleans. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

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Lawsuit says Norfolk Southern's freight trains cause chronic delays for Amtrak
By JOSH FUNK - Associated Press
Tue,07/30/24-12:43PM , 150 Reads
Norfolk Southern railroad has been causing chronic delays for Amtrak between New York and New Orleans by forcing the passenger trains to wait while its massive freight trains pass, the federal government said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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