Louisiana declares emergency ahead of deep freeze, forecasted snow
Gov. Jeff Landry declared a state of emergency Saturday in preparation for the winter weather expected to hit Louisiana early ...
John Milton Smith grew up near Shreveport, helped integrate post offices in Deep South
A student of Shreveport’s Providence Academy became one of the first African Americans to serve as a clerk in the Railway ...
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REVIEW: "Let Us Descend" is a haunting portrait of grief
Jesmyn Ward's fourth novel follows Annis, a young, enslaved woman, on her journey through the underworld of the American ...
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Amid years of pollution violations in the Deep South, Drax received over $700 million in ‘green’ loans
The Drax wood pellet plants in Mississippi and Louisiana have paid millions for violating state pollution laws yet received at least $762 million in “green” loans.
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Earthquake hits Northwest Louisiana; Here's the magnitude affected areas
Presley Bo Tyler is a reporter for the Louisiana Deep South Connect Team for Gannett/USA Today. Find her on X @PresleyTyler02 and email at [email protected] ...
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Winter storm plods into the Deep South, prompting states of emergency and school closures
Further south and east into Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, a wintry mix of sleet and freezing rain made travel treacherous. The storm dumped as much as 7 inches (about 18 centimeters ...
‘We didn’t celebrate Independence Day until 1947’: My week on the river that built America
But the headline act was not the ship, it was the Mississippi itself. Dubbed “the great artery of America” by Civil War ...
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WYSO's Linzay Young and Louisiana Byways celebrates one year on air
In this revisited WYSO Weekend interview with Jerry Kenney, Linzay Young discusses his background in Cajun music from ...
Powerful winter storm dumps heavy snow, causing flight delays, slick roads and school closings
A powerful winter storm that dumped heavy snow and glazed roads with ice across much of Texas and Oklahoma lumbered eastward ...