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​Troopers Remind Travelers to Make Safe Decisions during Independence Day Weekend

Baton Rouge – This weekend throughout the state, Louisiana citizens as well as visitors from out of state will be celebrating America’s independence.

Unfortunately, in 2015 many of those celebrations turned tragic for six families as Troopers notified them that their loved ones were killed in preventable crashes.

Hundreds of other motorists across the state celebrated the holiday from behind bars. With that in mind, Troopers urge everyone to make safe decisions before... MORE

​Photos of American flags in piles at veterans cemetery spark anger

​Supreme Court strikes down Texas abortion clinic regulations

Renee Bracey Sherman of Chicago, Ill. celebrates at the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 27, 2016, after the court struck down Texas' widely replicated regulation of abortion clinics .The justices voted 5-3 in favor of Texas clinics that had argued the regulations were a thinly veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get an abortion in the nation's second-most populous state. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
​WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court struck down Texas' widely replicated regulation of abortion clinics Monday in the court's biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter century.

The justices voted 5-3 in favor of Texas clinics that had argued the regulations were only a veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get abortions in the nation's second-most populous state.

Justice Stephen Breyer's majority opinion for the court held that the regulations are medically unnecessary and unconstitutionally limit a woman's right to an abortion... MORE

​Jesse Williams: ‘Just Because We’re Magic, Does Not Mean We’re Not Real’

​The actor was presented with a Humanitarian award and delivered an incredibly powerful speech.

​US stocks plunge in early trading after Britain votes to leave the EU; bonds, gold prices rise.  ​Now that Britain has voted to leave the EU, what comes next?

​10 pregnant women in Dallas showing signs of Zika virus

​Freddie Gray verdict: Baltimore officer who drove van not guilty on all charges

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Baltimore police officer Caesar Goodson Jr. (CNN)
CNN)[Breaking news update at 10:57 a.m. ET]
Baltimore police officer Caesar Goodson, who drove the van in which Freddie Gray was fatally injured, was found not guilty on all charges, including the most serious charge of second-degree depraved-heart murder, on Thursday... MORE

​Texas affirmative action plan survives Supreme Court review

As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could forever change the policy of affirmative action in America, one woman’s name continued to bubble up on social media: Abigail Fisher. 

Fisher, the plaintiff in the case and the subject of the #StayMadAbby hashtag that took over Twitter, claims she was denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin because the school considered race in its admissions process. Fisher says she did everything right — worked hard in school, played the cello, volunteered, earned respectable test scores — but was at a disadvantage because she is white... MORE
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Abigail Fisher speaks to reporters outside the Supreme Court following oral arguments on Dec. 9. Source: Huffpo

​Dems stage election-year sit-in on guns, GOP unmoved

WASHINGTON (AP) — A drained and dwindling group of Democrats, some draped in blankets and toting pillows, carried their remarkable House floor sit-in past daybreak Thursday, disrupting the business of Congress in the wake of the Orlando shooting rampage with demands for gun-control votes in an extraordinary scene of protest broadcast live to the world... MORE

​Paul Ryan Cuts Off C-SPAN Cameras To Blackout Democratic Gun Protest House Shutdown

Speaker Paul Ryan responded to Democrats shutting down the House with a protest to demand a vote on gun control by shutting off C-SPAN's cameras and blacking out the sit-in.
Photo of TV screen showing #periscope live feed of house floor. Credit: M. Savant
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​'Mississippi Burning' case, now closed, exposed KKK terror

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal and state authorities this week said they're ending investigation of the 1964 "Mississippi Burning" killings, one of the most infamous cases in the violent backlash to the civil rights movement.

Tuesday marked 52 years since Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman were abducted and killed by Ku Klux Klansmen outside Philadelphia, Mississippi, and the civil rights workers' legacy is still honored at annual memorial services.

​During the first weeks after the crime, some Mississippi residents and... MORE
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, holds a copy of the final report as he tells reporters that the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi is finally closed, 53 years almost to the day after the young men disappeared during "Freedom Summer," at a news conference Monday, June 20, 2016 in Jackson, Miss. The 1964 killings in Neshoba County sparked national outrage and helped spur passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They later became the subject of the movie "Mississippi Burning." (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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​By CAIN BURDEAU, ASSOCIATED PRESS
​BARATARIA PRESERVE, La. — Jun 21, 2016, 1:37 PM ET

In the heyday of oil exploration on Louisiana's coast after World War II, companies dug about 10,000 miles of canals as straight as Kansas highways through a natural world that's unraveling today — due, in part, to those canals.

Soon, about 16.5 miles of canals are to be filled in the Barataria Preserve — making a small dent in a massive problem.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Monday toured canals in the preserve by airboat. She called the work crucial.

The National Park Service is using $8.7 million from civil penalties drawn from the catastrophic BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 to do the work.

Long ago, oil companies abandoned the canals and spoil banks, which have interfered with hydrology and funneled salt water inland ever since.

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This story has been corrected to say Jewel's tour was on Monday, not Tuesday.

RELATED: Louisiana coastal damages lawsuit provokes wrath of Big Oil's political friends

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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. TURKISH SECURITY FORCES KILL MASTERMIND OF PREVIOUS BOMBING

Ankara flexes its muscle as it presses ahead with a probe into this week's suicide attack in Istanbul.

2. HOW TESLA CRASH COULD HURT SENTIMENT ON DRIVERLESS CARS

The deadly crash of a Tesla car being operated on Autopilot "flies in the face" of the company's claims that its system is high tech, nimble and safe.

3. WHY JUDGE BLOCKS MISS. LAW ON OBJECTIONS TO GAY MARRIAGE

U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves rules the law unconstitutionally establishes preferred beliefs and creates unequal treatment for gay people.

4. CASINO WORKERS TO STRIKE AGAINST TRUMP TAJ MAHAL

The Atlantic City gaming employees are still seething from the cancellation of their health insurance and pension benefits nearly two years ago.y.... MORE

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​Shreveport HIV/AIDS Call to Action: 
Half of black, quarter of Latino gay men projected to be diagnosed within their lifetime. Heterosexuals not immune.
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​​The Beatings Paradigm: A carryover from our slavery past? Is there a correlation between planta-tion coding, and black parenting and discipline?
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Hillary Clinton: The Secretary Wears Nada​
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REVIEW: Shreveport's Ology Jazz Sextet
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​REVIEW: Larry Wilmore's Set on the White House Correspondent's Dinner

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​TAMIR RICE: Settlement of $6 Million, No Culpability
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