May 2021

Hurricane debris cleanup done on Louisiana state roadways

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Eight months after Hurricane Laura devastated southwest Louisiana, the state transportation department has finished removing storm debris from state roadways.

Curator: people may find their history in slave ship exhibit

HOUMA, La. (AP) — A Black history museum in Louisiana has a new exhibit about one of the last slave ships — one which brought 400 Africans illegally to the United States and sold some of them in south Louisiana.

Four shootings on mayor roadways puzzle New Orleans police

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A recent spate of shootings on interstate highways in New Orleans has the police chief searching for answers.

$302M in BP oil spill money budgeted to restore ecosystems

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Texas can get up to $79 million in BP oil spill restoration money, Mississippi nearly $69 million, and Florida almost $74 million for ecosystem recovery projects and programs approved or extended this week.

Edwards backs removal of House Education Committee chairman

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards said he supports Black lawmakers’ push to oust House Education Chairman Ray Garofalo, who referenced the “good” parts of slavery in debate over his bill to prohibit teaching of “divisive concepts” about racism and sexism.

US wages, benefits jump as economy reopens

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wages and benefits grew quickly for U.S. workers in the first three months of the year, a sign that businesses are starting to offer higher pay to fill newly-opened jobs.

Carper urges tough rules barring gas-powered cars by 2035

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Senate Democrat is urging U.S. anti-pollution standards that would follow a deal brokered by California with five automakers and then set targets to end sales of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035, a goal that reaches farther than President Joe Biden’s climate plan.

Key piece of Biden’s $1.8T families plan expires after 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden couldn’t get everything he wanted into his own $1.8 trillion families plan.

Pentagon preparing for Taliban attacks during US withdrawal

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is preparing for possible Taliban attacks on U.S. and coalition forces as they withdraw from Afghanistan, a prospect that complicates the outlook for winding down America’s longest war.

TV’s greatest comedy duo Andy Griffith and Don Knotts

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There’s nothing I love more than great comic chemistry, that magical spark between two performers who bring out the best in each other. TV has so many great examples of brilliant partnerships, but when asked to name who I considered to be the top TV comedy duo of all time, my mind went to a fictional place that still feels so real -- Mayberry, North Carolina -- and the buddy lawmen of The Andy Griffith Show: Sheriff Andy Taylor (Griffith), that paragon of rural calm, and his hilariously excitable Deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts).