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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell speaks at police headquarters, Feb. 2, 2022, in New Orleans. A woman once accused of stalking by Cantrell filed a $1 million-plus federal lawsuit accusing Cantrell, her chief of staff and eight members of the city police department of civil rights violations and defamation on Friday, July 26, 2024. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)

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New Orleans' mayor accused her of stalking. Now she's filed a $1 million defamation suit
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Fri,07/26/24-1:50PM , 131 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans woman once accused of stalking by Mayor LaToya Cantrell turned the tables Friday with a $1 million-plus federal lawsuit accusing Cantrell, her chief of staff and eight members of the city poli
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Louisiana police officer killed during a SWAT operation, officials say
By SARA CLINE - The Associated Press
Fri,07/26/24-11:36AM , 113 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana police officer was killed this week during a hostage and standoff situation, the Lafayette Police Department said Friday.
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Birds fly past a pile of wood used to make pellets during a tour of a Drax facility in Gloster, Miss., Monday, May 20, 2024. Wood pellet production skyrocketed across the U.S. South to feed the European Union's push this past decade for renewable energy to replace fossil fuels like coal. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Wood pellets production boomed to feed EU demand. It's come at a cost for Black people in the South
By JAMES POLLARD, JULIE WATSON AND STEPHEN SMITH - Associated Press
Fri,07/26/24-12:02AM , 176 Reads
GLOSTER, Miss. (AP) — This southern Mississippi town's expansive wood pellet plant was so close to Shelia Mae Dobbins' home that she sometimes heard company loudspeakers. She says industrial residues coated her truck and she no longer enjoys spending time in the air outdoors.
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Morial urges National Urban League allies to shore up DEI policies and destroy Project 2025
By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE - Associated Press
Thu,07/25/24-4:30PM , 146 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Shoring up policies that promote diversity, equity and inclusion and destroying a proposed conservative guidebook that seeks to dismantle long-fought-for civil rights in America are just two of the challenges National Urban League President Marc H. Morial set forth Thursday to the group's allies.
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