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The Louisiana National Guard’s 844th Engineer Company and 1021st Engineer Company returned home to family and friends during welcome-home events throughout the state on Wednesday.

For years, the M-110 Self-propelled Howitzer sat rusting away in a grave-yard for military equipment at Camp Shelby in Mississippi. Vegetation was overtaking it. Today, with a fresh coat of paint and all cleaned up, it now sits proudly at the Louisiana Military Museum in Abbeville.

It's the kind of policy battle you'd never seen in the first term of a governor's rule. Bobby Jindal, with a year or so left at the helm, and the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education are locked up over Common Core. Jinday says no, BESE says yes.

A drunk Kaplan woman has agreed to a plea that avoids a possible life prison sentence.
Jennie Maturin caused a head-on collision resulting in the death of an unborn baby and injuring four others. Her deal will get her no more than 20 years in prison.

At least once a week, 71-year-old Sandra Marant can be found sweeping up cigarette butts, money, vomit, paper, broken glass or anything else that could be found on South State Street in Abbeville.