President Barack Obama announces an executive order requiring background checks in order to purchase guns at flea markets, websites, and other informal settings. Eric Gill reports…
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Governor-elect John Bel Edwards named Doctor Rebekah Gee as the state’s secretary for the Department of Health and Hospitals. The LSU professor will have the challenge of managing a nine-point-seven billion dollar agency and putting procedures in place so more poor working families can get health insurance through Medicaid.

Twenty-seven-year-old Eric John Senegal was killed in an altercation with authorities in southwest Louisiana. State Police Sergeant James Anderson says Beauregard Parish deputies were at his residence in Ragley, serving a narcotics search warrant, when gunfire erupted…
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Two Beauregard Parish Sheriff deputies have been placed on desk duty following the incident.

For the first time ever, a desert cardinal has been spotted in Louisiana. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist Dan O’ Malley spotted the bird in Jefferson Davis Parish. O’ Malley says the bird looks like a female northern cardinal…
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Pending acceptance by the Louisiana Bird Records Committee, it will bring the official list of birds in Louisiana to 480 species.