An emotional hearing last week on a proposed change to environmental cleanup regulations. The LDEQ has since withdrawn the revision pending further public outreach. Plus, four F-rated New Orleans schools implement improvement plans and a major update in the fake subpoena story.
Opposition to capital punishment gains momentum on the right.
The Orleans Parish school district is working with the schools rather than closing them.
Threatening to pull the club's parade permit is an all-too-familiar white supremacist tactic.
Audio from the opening of the Bonnet Carre spillway. A proposed chemical plant gets pushback from St. James Parish residents. And New Orleans charter school leaders are trying to align their calendars.
Judge denies much of Cannizzaro's motion to dismiss the suit, which alleges systematic civil rights violations.
The lockdown was lifted and police are investigating.
A representative of the Chinese-based chemical giant assured parish planning commissioners Monday that its planned isocyanate plant in Convent would provide hundreds of new direct and indirect jobs and would be managed safely. But some members of the public offering were not having it.
