Mardi Gras safety will be a big topic in New Orleans over the months ahead, after a second person in three days was struck and killed by a float. 58-year-old Joseph Sampson died Saturday after a passing tandem float hit him at the Endymion parade. Afterward, the city banned the use of tandem floats, but Endymion Vice President Charles Bruno does not believe a tandem float is to blame…
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Two Thoth riders were taken to the hospital yesterday after they fell off of separate floats and E-M-S says two were injured when they fell from a balcony on St. Charles Avenue.

A former Bossier City Police Officer has been arrested on murder and obstruction of justice charges. 43-year-old John Hardy was taken into custody over the weekend. The Bossier Parish Sheriff’s office has not released only a few details.

The fourth annual Mardi Gras Parade Horse Adoption Program is underway. Brooke Thorington has more.
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Alexandria-based Ingalls Information Security has published a whitepaper on how the 2020 presidential election could be hacked. C-E-O Jason Ingalls says local level election systems are a likely target…
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Ingalls recommends that state and local election officials have a next-generation anti-virus on their computers.