Governor Jeff Landry will be in Rayville later today to make a major economic development announcement. It’s expected he’ll announce that Meta, which operates Facebook and Instagram, will construct a five-billion dollar artificial intelligence data center in Richland Parish’s Holly Ridge.
Today is also big day for college football programs as it’s the early signing period. Andrew Greenstein has more…
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Senator Bill Cassidy is urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to bring the Social Security Fairness Act up for a vote before the end of the year…
The legislation would provide higher social security benefits for an estimated 90-thousand Louisiana residents, who were former public employees, but can’t receive full Social Security benefits because they are also getting pension from another job.
Former New Orleans priest Lawrence Hecker has pleaded guilty to assaulting a teenage boy in the mid-1970s. Hecker is now 93-years-old and now faces life in prison on several charges including first-degree rape. Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams…
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Hecker will be sentenced in two weeks.