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OPELOUSAS (AP) — Opelousas police have booked a state inmate with first-degree murder in hit-and-run death four years ago.

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana’s ban on cockfighting will mirror similar laws that prohibit dogfighting in the state.

Some hurricanes become notorious — Katrina, Rita and Andrew in recent memory — but others affecting the area are less well known like the three in 1860 that killed a total of 60 people.