A gay Louisiana high school student says she is going to skip her prom because the school’s principal will not let her wear a tuxedo. Claudettia Love is a senior and one of the top students in her class at Carroll High School in Monroe. Love said she was planning …
Read More »New Orleans teens plead guilty in carjacking, dragging death of woman, get 20 years
The teenage girls accused in the dragging death of a woman whose arm was severed during a New Orleans carjacking last year pleaded guilty Monday and were sentenced to 20 years in prison. The teens were convicted of attempted manslaughter in the death of 73-year-old Linda Frickey. The guilty pleas …
Read More »Man linked to Hamas attack on Israel indicted in Louisiana for conspiring to support terrorist group
A suspect in Hamas’ October 2023 terror attack against Israel that sparked a two-year war between the two sides has been formally charged in federal court. Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub al-Muhtadi, who has been living in Louisiana, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Lafayette for conspiring to support a …
Read More »Johnson, Scalise demand answers after suspected Hamas operative discovered on US soil
FIRST ON FOX: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., is sounding alarms to the Trump administration after a man allegedly involved in the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack in Israel was arrested in Louisiana. Scalise led Republicans in his state’s delegation, including Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in a letter to …
Read More »Gov. Jeff Landry warns criminal migrants in bold ad: 'We've got a place for you' at Louisiana Lockup
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is putting criminal illegal migrants on notice with an ad promoting “Louisiana Lockup,” a detention facility built inside the nation’s largest maximum-security prison. The ad highlights Louisiana’s push to combat crimes committed by illegal immigrants. Landry said the facility will hold migrants convicted of serious offenses …
Read More »Justice Jackson's remarks on minority voters spark heavy backlash: 'They're disabled'
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sparked debate Wednesday after she invoked the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) during oral arguments to illustrate how the government can remedy discrimination — an exchange that quickly took off on social media, where some critics accused her of comparing Black voters to disabled …
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