LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A federal judge in Louisiana has ordered an Alabama boat captain to serve 160 years in prison for exploiting a girl to make child pornography, and to pay the girl more than $200,000.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Thousands of electricity customers in and around New Orleans’ central business district were without power Wednesday morning. Outages affected traffic lights at rush hour and left high
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An unlicensed contractor who was also a suburb’s head of inspections and code enforcement has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and filing false tax returns, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks around the world swung on Tuesday, oil prices rose sharply and the price of nickel surged so much that trading for it was shut in London, as the economic fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine keeps rocking markets.
GENEVA (AP) —An expert group convened by the World Health Organization said Tuesday it “strongly supports urgent and broad access” to booster doses amid the global spread of omicron, in a reversal of the U.N. agency’s insistence last year that boosters weren’t necessary and contributed to vaccine inequity.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s trip Tuesday to Fort Worth, Texas, is personal — a chance to talk with veterans and their caregivers and push for more help for members of the military who face health problems after exposure to burn pits.
The Louisiana Public Service Commission designated CenturyLink as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier within its service area for universal service purposes. CenturyLink’s basic local service rates for residential voice lines are $26.00-$27.50 per month and business services are $34.00-$40.00 per month. Specific rates will be provided upon request.
