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Union Parish special prosecutor Hugo Holland stands for a portrait in his office in Minden, La., on Friday, March 17, 2023. In the case of five white officers charged in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene, the Black district attorney in mostly white Union Parish has decided to bring in a hired gun: Holland, an experienced special prosecutor with a folksy law-and-order bravado and a three-decades-long reputation for winning complicated cases across the state. (AP Photo/Scott Clause)

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Race issues dog 'wild card' prosecutor in Ronald Greene case
By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press
Wed,03/22/23-12:10AM , 208 Reads
FARMERVILLE, La. (AP) — In this conservative corner of northern Louisiana, where reverence for law enforcement runs deep and Blue Lives Matter flags often fly alongside the Stars and Stripes, the case of five white officers charged in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene is seen as anything but a slam dunk.
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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell speaks at the police headquarters in New Orleans about the uptick in crime around the city, on Feb. 2, 2022. The effort to recall Mayor Cantrell has failed, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)

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Effort to recall New Orleans' first female mayor fails
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tue,03/21/23-4:45PM , 169 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The effort to recall Democratic New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has failed, following an official count of petition signatures released by the Louisiana governor’s office Tuesday.
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Myrtle Felton, from left, Sharon Lavigne, Gail LeBoeuf and Rita Cooper conduct a live stream video on property owned by Formosa on March 11, 2020, in St. James Parish, La. Residents of a Louisiana parish located in the heart of a cluster of polluting petrochemical factories filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, March 21, 2023, raising allegations of civil rights, environmental justice and religious liberty violations. LeBoeuf, a co-founder of Inclusive Louisiana, has liver cancer, which she acknowledged can't be traced back to petrochemical plant pollution with certainty, but said it can't be ruled out either. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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Residents sue Louisiana parish to halt polluting plants
By DREW COSTLEY - AP Science Writer
Tue,03/21/23-1:32PM , 155 Reads
Residents of a Louisiana parish located in the heart of a cluster of polluting petrochemical factories filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday raising allegations of civil rights, environmental justice and religious liberty violations.
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Louisiana man charged with hiding death of Georgia visitor
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tue,03/21/23-1:15PM , 133 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana have charged a man with illegally dumping the body of a 42-year-old Georgia man found wrapped in plastic and a rug nearly two weeks after he went missing.
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