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LAKE ARTHUR — The town is looking for locals and businesses who are interested in participating in the downtown Christmas Festival and Parade set to take place in December.

RUSTON (AP) — One of four women stabbed in what officials said was a random attack on a Louisiana college campus has died, the school announced.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An auction of federal Gulf of Mexico leases for oil and gas drilling must be held in 37 days, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, rejecting environmentalists’ arguments against the sale and throwing out plans by the Biden administration to scale back the sale to protect an endangered species of whale.

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Four new whooping cranes are now a part of Louisiana's experimental population in Vermilion Parish, state wildlife regulators said.

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NEW YORK (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson endorsed Donald Trump for president on Tuesday, a move that was a symbolic departure from his ousted predecessor leading the House.

By VICTOR SKINNER The Center Square contributor

(The Center Square) – The crisis at the southern border, the growing threat of terrorism, and overseas conflicts that could entangle the U.S. are among the growing threats to national security, U.S. House lawmakers were told at a Wednesday hearing.