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Settlement made in migrant workers' crawfish processing suit
By KEVIN MCGILL
Thu,06/23/22-1:33PM , 70 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Six migrant workers would share in a total of more than $21,000 in the proposed settlement of a lawsuit filed last year alleging that a Louisiana crawfish processing business underpaid them in violation of minimum wage laws.
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Emergency personnel arrive to evacuate people at a mass shelter, Sept. 2, 2021 in Independence, La. The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes whose residents suffered in squalid conditions after being evacuated to a warehouse for Hurricane Ida has been arrested. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry says 68-year-old Bob Glynn Dean Jr. faces multiple counts of cruelty to persons with infirmities, Medicaid fraud, and obstruction of justice. Online booking records show that Dean was in custody Wednesday, June 22, 2022 in Tangipahoa Parish. (Chris Granger/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

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Nursing home owner whose residents suffered in Ida arrested
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Wed,06/22/22-1:43PM , 148 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes who sent more than 800 of his elderly residents to a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida last year was arrested Wednesday on fraud and cruelty charges arising from the squalid conditions.
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Louisiana governor: Special session to draw new Congress map
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Tue,06/07/22-2:53PM , 105 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday called a special legislative session to redraw Louisiana's congressional boundary lines after a map adopted by the Republican-dominated Legislature was blocked by a federal judge in Baton Rouge.
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks during a news conference in Baton Rouge, La., on Feb. 1, 2022. A federal judge blocked the use of newly drawn congressional maps in Louisiana that include only one mostly Black district on Monday, June 6, 2022, and ordered the Legislature to come up with a remedial plan by June 20. The district map was drawn up in a special session earlier this year by the Republican-dominated Legislature. Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards vetoed the maps but his veto was overridden. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)

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Judge blocks Louisiana Congress map with one Black district
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Mon,06/06/22-4:58PM , 84 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana's Democratic governor said Monday he will call the Republican-dominated Legislature into special session soon to draw up new congressional district boundaries, now that a federal judge has blocked use of maps that have only one majority-Black district.
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