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Camping season starts for Louisiana 4-Hers

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POLLOCK — Approximately 3,000 youth will spend a week swimming, canoeing, creating and learning at 4-H camp at the LSU AgCenter Grant Walker Educational Center near Pollock. Trinity Bustamento, of

Fish tale: Miss. says catch underreported, ends season

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Here’s an opposite of the normal kind of fish tale: Mississippi authorities believe commercial fishermen haven’t been owning up to all the fish they’ve caught.

Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Executive Director Joe Spraggins announced Tuesday that the second half of the state’s commercial fishing season for speckled trout, a much-sought species along the Gulf Coast, won’t happen.

That’s because officials believe commercial fishermen didn’t fully report their catches from the first half of the season.

Tribal officials investigate gillnet abandoned on Mille Lacs

ONAMIA, Minn. (AP) — Tribal authorities are investigating an abandoned gillnet found on Mille Lacs Lake that contained 67 dead walleyes.

Last week’s find has revived the controversy over tribal fishing on Mille Lacs, where the walleye population has been on a long-term decline.

Mille Lacs is co-managed between the state and eight Ojibwe bands that have court-affirmed treaty rights to net and spear a portion of the lake’s walleyes.

Spain government poised to fall, Socialists set to take helm

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s conservative government appeared doomed Thursday to lose a noconfidence vote in parliament, with the center-left Socialist party poised to take power.

A Basque nationalist party’s announcement that it would vote in favor of the motion spelled the almost certain end of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s mandate and foretold the stunning collapse of his minority government in a parliamentary vote Friday, when it will be short of support to survive.

Officials of Rajoy’s Popular Party dismissed speculation that he might resign ahead of the vote.

All business: Spelling bee finalists cut out distractions

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Naysa Modi attended the festive Memorial Day barbecue that kicks off the week for competitors in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, but she left on the first bus available to return to the convention center outside Washington where the bee is staged. She blew off that evening’s opening ceremonies, too, feeling like she’d seen it all before.

Naysa, who first competed in the bee as a cherubic 9-yearold, is now a poised and accomplished speller in her fourth appearance, with a businesslike approach to match.

STATE BRIEFS

New Orleans police seek man in Mother’s Day deadly shooting NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police say a man killed another man and wounded a teenager in a shooting

Senators boost sales tax renewal bill in rift with House

BATON ROUGE (AP) — State senators Wednesday heavily rewrote a sales tax renewal bill to boost the money raised for next year’s budget, despite warnings the approach would be rejected

Trump plans to go ahead with steel, aluminum tariffs

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to impose tariffs on European steel and aluminum imports after failing to win concessions from the European Union, a move that

FEMA: Puerto Rico focused on disaster response capability

MIAMI (AP) — Puerto Rico is working on building emergency management capabilities that would help the Caribbean island withstand future disasters, the head of the U.S. government agency that oversees

Poll: Seniors ready to Skype doctors, care quality a concern

WASHINGTON (AP) — Every morning, 92-yearold Sidney Kramer wraps a blood pressure cuff around his arm and steps on a scale, and readings of his heart health beam to a