Angola State Penitentiary may begin housing ICE detainees. Louisiana leaders and the Trump administration are in talks to use the prison facility as the President widens the crackdown on immigrants in the country illegally. West Feliciana Parish president Kenny Havard welcomes the opportunity.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is on the cover of “Time” Magazine this month, describing the his relationship with President Trump as a good cop-bad cop scenario. Johnson was elected Speaker of the House in the middle of just his fourth term as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives – this after serving just one term in the Louisiana House of Representatives.
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The police force in one small community in Jefferson Davis Parish is now down to one. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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After nearly two centuries making candy in Pontchatoula, Elmer Chocolate has been sold to a Florida based conglomerate. Hoffman Family of Companies, which operates 120 different brants, says they like to buy strong, local brands, help them grow, all while keeping existing management and employees in place. There’s no word on what the overall price-tag was, but Elmer has an estimated yearly revenue of about 100-million dollars.