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• Cuban asylum seeker kills himself in ICE jail in Louisiana
  Roylan Hernandez Diaz had been in ICE detention since May, when he applied for asylum at a border bridge in El Paso, Texas.
  NATION-WORLD

  Updated: 31 minutes ago
• Louisiana high court upholds sentence in mom's bedsore death
  Bessie Looney was found strapped in a wheelchair with a large wound leaking thick, green mucus. She weighed just 82 pounds when she died.
  CRIME

  Updated: 40 minutes ago
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  Rescue searches end at Hard Rock hotel collapse site
  The focus will now be on safely bringing down two unstable cranes attached to the building before they fall on their own.
  ORLEANS

  Updated: 46 minutes ago
• Louisiana man arrested in 1989 deaths of 2 women
  Robert Blair faces two first-degree murder charges involving the disappearances of Isabelle Blair - his wife - and 31-year-old Marian Elizabeth Coutee.
  CRIME

  Updated: 5 minutes ago