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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — To protect the health of musicians and entertainment industry workers, the New Orleans City Council on Thursday voted unanimously to ban smoking in bars and gambling halls even a

THIBODAUX (AP) — A Lafourche Parish judge has denied a Mathews woman’s request to have her 2009 convictions for killing her two young children set aside.

BATON ROUGE (AP) — State coastal scientists have released findings on the best location for two additional sediment diversions along the lower Mississippi River based on cost, highest sediment coll