The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. New Orleans Privateers (9-22, 4-14 Southland) vs. SE Louisiana Lions (15-16, 10-8 Southland) Lake Charles, Louisiana; Sunday, 6 p.m. EDT FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Lions -6.5; over/under is 145.5 …
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Louisiana’s crime-focused special legislative session begins
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Under a new era of conservative leadership, Louisiana’s GOP-dominated Legislature will gather Monday for a special legislative session that could reshape the state’s criminal justice system and the public safety sector. Among the more than two dozen bills filed ahead of session is legislation that proposes expanding methods to carry out death row executions, restricting …
Read More »A $2.7 billion sale of a major Louisiana health insurer is off table for the second time in a year
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A major Louisiana health insurer’s plan to reorganize and sell itself to insurance giant Elevance Health for $2.7 billion was shelved hours ahead of a scheduled public hearing Wednesday in Baton Rouge, where critics of the sale have voiced various concerns over the proposal. Proponents of the plan had said that under Elevance there would be …
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