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Cicadas primed for rare double emergence
For the first time since 1803, two broods of periodical cicadas — one that appears every 17 years and another that emerges every 13 years — will come from the ground simultaneously in the United St
Jim Bradshaw: South La. spa was named for belle of the ball
Not even memories remain of the 160-acre spa called Belle Cheney Springs, which attracted visitors from far and wide to the piney woods of northern Evangeline Parish in the late 1800s.
Jim Brown: La. Legislature punts on some crime solutions
The Louisiana Legislature just finished the special session on crime, spending several million dollars to come up with more ways to reduce the violence that continues to plague the Bayou State.
House passes bill restricting parole
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana, which tops lists for both incarceration and crime, moved Friday toward almost entirely eliminating parole and dramatically shrinking good-behavior sentence reductions.