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Trump officials are vowing to end school desegregation orders. Some parents say they're still neededIn Concordia Parish, Louisiana, stark racial disparities persist between schools despite a decades-old desegregation order. The Justice Dep...
Massive Louisiana power outage affects thousands and disrupts Memorial Day weekendA widespread power outage struck southeast Louisiana on Memorial Day weekend, impacting over 100,000 residents due to a load shed order fro...
Families left in the dark as emergency rolling outages hit New Orleans and surrounding parishesTens of thousands lost electricity across New Orleans, Metairie, and nearby parishes on Sunday, May 25, due to emergency rolling outages tr...
New Orleans jail break: two women arrested for aiding prisoners, face 5 years in prisonIn New Orleans, two women, Cortnie Harris and Corvanntay Baptiste, face charges for aiding inmates who escaped from Orleans Justice Center....
- BP chokes off the oil leak; now begins the wait
BP finally choked off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, 85 days and up to 184 million gallons (697 million liters) after the crisis ...
- Feds say new cap could contain Gulf leak by Monday
Undersea robots manipulated by engineers a mile (1.6 kilometers) above will begin work on Saturday to remove the containment cap over the g...
- BP market losses hit $100 billion on spill cost fears
BP Plc stock hit a 14-year low on Friday and its credit weakened sharply on talk it needs extra cash to fund the clean-up and compensation ...
- BP now trying to contain flow of oil
After its 'top kill' experiment to plug the leak in the Gulf failed, BP is now trying to contain flow of oil even as the Obama administrati...