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Southern U.S. welcomes hairy ‘crazy ant’ invasion in Florida, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana
Hairy crazy ants are on the move in Florida, Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The flea-sized critters are called crazy because each ant in the horde seems to scramble randomly, moving so fast that videos look as if they’re on fast-forward. (Joe MacGown/Mississippi State… …
Harris-Perry: Jindal doesn’t ‘give a damn’ about Louisianans
Melissa Harris-Perry said on her Nov. 17 show that she wanted to send a letter to her governor, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. Earlier this week, the state’s secretary of health sent a letter to the Obama administration declining to set up health insurance exchanges. Then New Orleans’ mayor wrote to…
Death row inmate walks free due to DNA evidence
Death row inmate Damon Thibodeaux walked free after 15 years behind bars after DNA evidence showed he had been wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of his cousin, authorities said. The 38-year-old was released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary in the early afternoon on Friday, Pam Laborde, communications director…
Louisiana looks for ‘smoking gun’ to link Isaac tar balls to Gulf oil disaster
Louisiana is investigating whether tar balls deposited on Gulf of Mexico beaches by Hurricane Isaac were relics of the 2010 BP oil disaster. Government agencies and environmental groups this week reported weathered oil in areas which took the brunt of last week’s hurricane – and which were also heavily damaged…
Families face grim wait in the dark as Isaac grinds on
BELLE CHASSE, Louisiana — Storm-weary residents hunkered down for a hot, wet and windy wait on Wednesday as Hurricane Isaac slowed to storm force but looked set to linger over southern Louisiana. Officials urged residents to stay indoors and warned it would be at least a day before winds calmed…
New face-eating ‘bath salts’ attack in Louisiana
Another violent face-biting incident associated with the drug mephedrone has taken place, this time in Louisiana, according to Lafayette, Louisiana’s KATC. Forty-three-year-old Carl Jacquneaux is accused of biting the face of Todd Credeur in a bizarre attack that took place over the weekend and bears a startling resemblance to a case…
Young Turks host: Louisiana’s sheriffs get a cut of America’s ‘prison capital’
The Young Turks host Ana Kasparian explained Tuesday how Louisiana sheriffs had an incentive to keep the inmate population high. “None violent drug offenders end up in these prisons for very, very long sentences just because these sheriff’s departments profit from it,” she said. Louisiana’s incarceration rate is the highest…
Louisiana has the highest imprisonment rate in the country
No place in America or the world has a larger prison population per person than the state of Louisiana, according to an explosive report from The Times-Picayune. Louisiana’s incarceration rate is not only the largest in the country, but is triple the rate in Iran, seven times greater than in…
Alligator wanders up to Louisiana Motel 6 and bites guest
A Motel 6 in Port Allen, Louisiana had an unusual guest on Thursday, a 5-foot-plus alligator that wandered up to the building from a nearby canal. It was first spotted by a hotel employee, but it was a guest who attempted to subdue the animal before police and animal control…
House-cat surrogate mom gives birth to endangered kitten
At the Audubon Center for the Research of Endangered Species in Algiers, Louisiana, a rare African black-footed kitten named Crystal was born on February 6, 2012. She was born as part of a program in which regular domestic cats act as surrogate mothers to rare and endangered offspring. According to…
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