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Victor of Louisiana insurance commissioner election decided after candidate withdraws
By SARA CLINE - Associated Press
Wed,08/16/23-5:11PM , 62 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Tim Temple, a Baton Rouge Republican who spent 20 years in the insurance industry, will be Louisiana’s next insurance commissioner after the only other candidate dropped out of the race Wednesday.
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Vehicles enter the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary — Angola Prison, the largest high-security prison in the country in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. In a federal court filing dated Monday, July 17, 2023, advocates said that juveniles held in a former death row building at the Louisiana prison for adults are suffering through dangerous heat and psychologically damaging isolation in their cells with little or no mental health care, inadequate schooling and foul water. In the filing, advocates asked a judge to order that the youths be moved. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File)

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Hearing begins over incarcerated youths being held at Louisiana's maximum-security prison
By SARA CLINE - Associated Press
Tue,08/15/23-8:28PM , 83 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A court hearing over whether to remove incarcerated youths from a temporary lockup at the Louisiana State Penitentiary — a remote maximum-security adult prison with a notorious history of violence — began Tuesday.
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Stephen Waguespack, candidate for governor speaks to the media after qualifying at the Secretary of State's Office on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 in Baton Rouge, La. The former head of one of Louisiana’s most powerful business groups, Stephen Waguespack, and 37-year-old state Rep. Richard Nelson rounded out the crowded list of GOP candidates who will be on the ballot for Louisiana's Oct. 14 gubernatorial election. (April Buffington/The Advocate via AP)

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Here's who is running for governor in Louisiana this October
By SARA CLINE - Associated Press
Thu,08/10/23-5:04PM , 81 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The former head of one of Louisiana’s most powerful business groups, Stephen Waguespack, and 37-year-old state Rep. Richard Nelson round out the crowded list of GOP candidates who will be on the ballot for Louisiana's Oct. 14 gubernatorial election.
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Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry talks to reporters outside the Supreme Court, Jan. 7, 2022, in Washington. On Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, Republican state Sen. Sharon Hewitt and state Attorney General Jeff Landry joined a crowded list of candidates who have officially qualified to run for governor in Louisiana's Oct. 14 election. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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Louisiana race for governor intensifies, but the GOP front-runner brushes off criticism
By SARA CLINE - Associated Press
Wed,08/09/23-7:58PM , 64 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s gubernatorial race is intensifying as candidates take aim at Attorney General Jeff Landry — the Republican front-runner backed by former President Donald Trump — by calling him a bully and accusing him of backroom deals to gain political support.
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