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There's a Big Gap Between Richest, Poorest States

Sep 15, 2017 9:12 AM CDT

The 5 Richest, Poorest US States

Maryland's median household income is $37K more than Mississippi's

(Newser) - The median household income in the US climbed more between 2014 and 2016 than in any other two-year period on record. But that doesn't mean all Americans shared equally in the gains. Maryland residents enjoy a median household income that is almost twice that of people in Mississippi, per...

Harvey Makes Landfall Again, Marking 'End of the Beginning'

It's the 'End of the Beginning'
as Harvey Moves to Louisiana

Aug 30, 2017 6:27 AM CDT

It's the 'End of the Beginning' as Harvey Moves to Louisiana

Storm came ashore near Cameron, Louisiana

(Newser) - Harvey has made landfall again, this time as a tropical storm near the Louisiana-Texas border on the day after the 12th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. ABC News reports the storm came ashore just west of Cameron, La., around 5am ET, with CNN noting that winds of roughly 40mph and a...

10-Year-Old Delivers Mom's Breech Baby in Bathroom

10-Year-Old Credited With
Saving Mom, Newborn Brother

Aug 18, 2017 7:14 PM CDT

10-Year-Old Credited With Saving Mom, Newborn Brother

He delivered the premature, breech baby in their Louisiana bathroom

(Newser) - Jayden Fontenot may very well have saved the lives of his mother and newborn brother last Friday. Not bad for a 10-year-old. Today reports that 36-year-old Ashly Moreau went to use the bathroom Aug. 11 at her home in Sulphur, Louisiana, and was shocked to find her unborn baby's...

Emergency in
New Orleans Over
Failing Pumps

Aug 11, 2017 7:25 AM CDT

Emergency in New Orleans Over Failing Pumps

Mayor's office says fire-damaged turbine is responsible

(Newser) - Schools closed for the week, and the mayor of New Orleans urged residents to park their cars on high ground. It's a familiar routine for the city during hurricane season, but this time the threat isn't churning in the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana's governor declared a state...

Baton Rouge Cop Sues
Black Lives Matter, Leaders

Jul 10, 2017 7:58 AM CDT

Baton Rouge Cop Sues Black Lives Matter, Leaders

Complaint by officer injured in gunman's ambush says BLM incited violence

(Newser) - Last July, a police officer in Baton Rouge, La., was seriously injured after a gunman ambushed him and five other members of law enforcement, killing three—and now that officer is suing various arms of the Black Lives Matter movement and some of its leaders, CNN reports. The complaint filed...

Internet Doesn't Like La. Pol's
Auschwitz Gas Chamber Video

Jul 5, 2017 10:29 AM CDT

Internet Doesn't Like La. Pol's Auschwitz Gas Chamber Video

Auschwitz Memorial's Twitter account was especially irate at Rep. Clay Higgins

(Newser) - A video that went up on Lee Johnson Media's YouTube channel on Saturday is causing grief for the Louisiana congressman behind the footage. The Times-Picayune reports on Rep. Clay Higgin's perhaps ill-thought-out recording, a five-minute reel that he apparently thought would have more impact if he shot it...

This Is America's
Safest State

Jun 6, 2017 11:45 AM CDT

This Is America's Safest State

Vermont is A-OK, Mississippi not so much

(Newser) - Drug problems aside , living in Vermont is your safest bet to stay safe, according to WalletHub . The site reviewed a variety of data falling under the categories of personal, financial, workplace, and road safety, as well as emergency preparedness, to give the states a safety score out of 100,...

Need a Job?
Here's Where
You Need to Be

Jun 1, 2017 10:45 AM CDT

Need a Job? Here's Where You Need to Be

Washington is best state for jobs: WalletHub

(Newser) - Job prospects looking a bit gloomy? They might look a lot better after a move to Washington state. According to WalletHub , it's the best state in the country for jobs, based on 24 factors like employment growth, median annual income, and average commute time. The best and worst states...

Agents Feared Leak of Trump's
Taxes Could Affect Election

May 24, 2017 8:05 PM CDT

Agents Feared Leak of Trump's Taxes Could Affect Election

A PI has been charged after allegedly trying to get president's tax returns

(Newser) - Court documents show federal agents were worried last October that a Louisiana private investigator had illegally obtained Donald Trump's tax returns and may leak them. The agents say in court documents obtained by the AP on Wednesday that the public release of the returns could have influenced the presidential...

Lawmaker Calls
for Lynchings
as Confederate
Statues Fall

May 23, 2017 7:41 AM CDT

Lawmaker Calls for Lynchings as Confederate Statues Fall

Mississippi's Karl Oliver says 'choice of words was horribly wrong'

(Newser) - A Mississippi state lawmaker is facing a firestorm after saying politicians who support the removal of Confederate monuments should be lynched. Four Confederate monuments were recently removed from New Orleans in an effort to "correct" history, the city's mayor tells Time . But Rep. Karl Oliver didn't see...

The 5 Most, Least
Obese States

May 20, 2017 3:49 PM CDT

The 5 Most, Least Obese States

Go West, (skinny) young man

(Newser) - At least one in five Americans are considered obese, but some of them are clustered together geographically. And if you want to avoid a bulging waistline, you'd do well to steer clear of Paula Deen and the South and head West, notes 24/7 Wall St. in compiling its list...

US Justice Dept. Won't Charge
Cops in Alton Sterling's Death

May 2, 2017 6:49 PM CDT

US Justice Dept. Won't Charge Cops in Alton Sterling's Death

The state is still free to file its own charges

(Newser) - The US Justice Department has decided not to charge two white Baton Rouge police officers in the death of a black man whose fatal shooting was captured on cellphone video, fueling protests in Louisiana's capital and beyond, the AP reports. Federal authorities opened a civil rights investigation immediately after...

New Orleans Starts Taking
Down 'Aberration'

Apr 24, 2017 3:40 AM CDT

New Orleans Starts Taking Down 'Aberration'

Mayor says Confederate statues don't represent city

(Newser) - Workers in New Orleans began removing the first of four prominent Confederate monuments early Monday, making it the latest Southern city to sever itself from symbols viewed by many as representing racism and white supremacy. Trucks arrived to begin removing the first memorial, one that commemorates whites who tried to...

Police Raffle Has Shocking
Grand Prize, Literally

Apr 12, 2017 12:55 PM CDT

Police Raffle Has Shocking Grand Prize, Literally

An officer will be hit by a stun gun in Louisiana

(Newser) - A police union in Louisiana is raffling off a grand prize that is raising eyebrows: the use of a stun gun on one of its officers, per the AP . DeRidder Police Chief John Gott says officers themselves suggested one of their own be stunned April 15 to raise funds for...

Man, 74, Confesses
'Out of the Blue' to 1993 Murder

Apr 7, 2017 1:39 AM CDT

Man, 74, Confesses 'Out of the Blue' to 1993 Murder

He went to cops on 24th anniversary of NC killing

(Newser) - On the 24th anniversary of the crime, a 74-year-old Louisiana man confessed to killing his son-in-law in North Carolina, officials say. Maj. Tom Effler of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office in Goldsboro, NC, said that on Feb. 7, Allen Deaver told authorities he'd killed Sydney Maurice Gregory on...

Louisiana Tornado Kills
Mom, 3-Year-Old Daughter

Apr 3, 2017 12:21 AM CDT

Louisiana Tornado Kills Mom, 3-Year-Old Daughter

State on high alert; storm system has damaged homes across Deep South

(Newser) - A tornado flipped a mobile home Sunday in Louisiana, killing a mother and her 3-year-old daughter as a storm system with hurricane-force winds crawled across the Deep South, damaging homes and businesses. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards put the entire state on "high alert" and warned residents to stay...

Cop Gets 40 Years
in Fatal Shooting
of Autistic Boy, 6

Mar 31, 2017 2:42 PM CDT

Cop Gets 40 Years in Fatal Shooting of Autistic Boy, 6

Boy was shot and killed after 2-mile car chase

(Newser) - A Louisiana law enforcement officer was sentenced Friday to 40 years in prison a week after a jury convicted him of manslaughter in the shooting death of a 6-year-old boy with autism , the AP reports. Derrick Stafford, 33, was convicted in the November 2015 shooting that killed Jeremy Mardis and...

Cop Found Guilty of
Killing Autistic Boy, 6

Mar 25, 2017 10:18 AM CDT

Cop Found Guilty of Killing Autistic Boy, 6

La prosecutor called it an 'execution.'

(Newser) - A Louisiana deputy marshal charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of an autistic 6-year-old boy was convicted of the lesser offense of manslaughter Friday. Derrick Stafford was one of two officers who fired 18 bullets at the car of Christopher Few after a chase in 2015, unaware that...

Woman Sees Cop in Trouble,
Jumps on Attacker's Back

Feb 20, 2017 6:26 PM CST

Woman Sees Cop in Trouble, Jumps on Attacker's Back

Vickie Williams-Tillman is being hailed as a hero

(Newser) - When Vickie Williams-Tillman saw a police officer struggling with someone on the side of the road as she was headed out to shop Sunday morning in Baton Rouge, the 56-year-old says she didn't have time to think. "I could see in his eyes he needed help," she...

The Small-Town
'Suicide' That
Maybe Wasn't

The Small-Town 'Suicide' That Maybe Wasn't

Dead man's dad suspects it was a case of police brutality

(Newser) - In a Louisiana town with railroad tracks serving as a literal racial divide comes the story of a young black man who died after supposedly shooting himself on March 3, 2014—a "Houdini suicide" that cops say he pulled off while handcuffed in the back of a police car....