February 2022

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Police shoot suspects in separate cases in south Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities are investigating shootings by police at opposite ends of south Louisiana.

Senate candidate burns Confederate flag in new ad

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana candidate for the U.S. Senate burns a Confederate flag in his latest video ad, released Wednesday.

Best name for cute baby orangutan: Rudy, Roux or Maymuun?

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The zoo in New Orleans is asking fans of endangered orangutans to help name the baby Sumatran orangutan born on Christmas Eve 2021.

As state mask rules end, school leaders are in the middle

(AP) — As some of the last statewide mask mandates in the U.S. near an end, decisions about whether students and teachers should continue to wear masks in school are shifting to local leaders, who are caught in the middle of one of the most combustible issues of the pandemic.

Under pressure to ease up, Biden weighs new virus response

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing growing pressure to ease up on pandemic restrictions, the White House insisted Wednesday it is making plans for a lessdisruptive phase of the national virus response. But impatient states, including Democratic New York, made clear they aren’t waiting for Washington as public frustration grows.

Colorade mom fatally abused child, gets 16-year prison term

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado mother who fatally abused her 7-year-old daughter and lied about her health to get handouts from charities worth at least $100,000 was sentenced to 16 years in prison as part of a plea deal that threw out murder charges.

Toxicologist testifies that drugs did not kill George Floyd

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A toxicologist testified Wednesday at the federal trial of three former officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights that it wasn’t drug use, heart disease nor an agitated state known as “excited delirium” that caused Floyd’s death after officers pinned him to the pavement in May 2020.

Colin F. ‘Frank’ Fake

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Colonel Colin Francis “Frank” Fake, 86, of Jennings passed from this life Feb. 6, 2022.

Rose Gary Craig

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LAKE ARTHUR — The family and friends of Rose Gary Craig are mourning the loss of their loved one who was called from this life on Feb. 6, 2022, at the age of 70.