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Almost five years after the massive BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, researchers are preparing to check on how deepwater marine mammals in the northern Gulf of Mexico are faring.

The American Civil Liberties Union says the St. Martinville Police Department cannot prohibit Mardi Gras floats from playing rap music with obscene lyrics.
The Daily Iberian quotes ACLU of Louisiana executive director Marjorie Esman from a letter Esman reportedly wrote to SMPD.

Dr. Dolliann Margaret Hurtig, an associate professor of French at Louisiana Tech University, received the title Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques de France in a formal ceremony officiated by the Consul General of France, Grégor Trumel.