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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Barksdale Air Force Base went into lockdown Friday morning after receiving reports of an active-shooter threat, according to the base.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) – Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s legal team has issued subpoenas to several New Orleans officials over testimony and records tied to the now-dismissed criminal case against her.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Caddo Parish officials are seeking traffic safety improvements outside a Head Start facility after Shreveport police issued 34 speeding tickets in the area in a single day.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – After being saved from the brink of death, a dog abandoned on the streets of New Mexico became the first rescue dog to graduate from the U.S. Border Patrol Canine Academy in El Paso, Texas, as a critical incident response canine.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Susan Bourgeois said rural parish leaders across the state began calling her asking whether they, too, could land a data center after news spread that some Richland Parish teachers received $50,000 year-end checks fueled by a surge in sales tax collections.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — A federal judge has set a retrial for a disbarred attorney and a co-defendant on murder-related charges in the New Orleans staged-wrecks conspiracy, two weeks after a jury convicted the attorney on fraud and obstruction counts but deadlocked on allegations tied to the killing of an FBI cooperator.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – A former Cotton Valley mayoral candidate faces federal charges after Louisiana election officials say their Election Integrity Division uncovered information about an effort to register a noncitizen who later voted in the election in which she was running.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Louisiana’s tax code contains a sales-tax exemption for certain purchases by churches and synagogues, but the state says the provision cannot be used because of a federal court injunction that has remained in effect for two decades.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — Louisiana utility regulators have agreed to accelerate their review of a sweeping Cleco Power proposal to supply electricity to Applied Digital’s $3.6 billion data center in Rapides Parish, shortening a regulatory process that Cleco says must conclude by March to keep a key power contract in place.The Louisiana Public Service Commission unanimously approved Cleco’s request Wednesday to move the case forward without requiring a final recommendation from an administrative law judge before commissioners act.The decision does not amount to final approval of Cleco’s proposed natural gas generation, transmission infrastructure or contracts with Applied Digital.An evidentiary hearing will still be held before the commission decides the merits of the application.Cleco’s pending application is one of the first major cases to proceed under the commission’s “Lightning Initiative,” an expedited regulatory pathway adopted in December for new power resources associated with large industrial loads.The docket includes Cleco’s electric service agreement with Applied Digital, a temporary capacity agreement with Tenaska Frontier Partners, transmission and interconnection work, n
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has approved an air quality permit for Project Dynamo, a rare earth separation facility proposed at the Port of Vinton in Calcasieu Parish, clearing the way for construction to begin.
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