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Louisiana removes more than 50,000 people from Medicaid

Louisiana removed 50,600 people from government-funded Medicaid health insurance over the last few weeks, as part of the program’s massive disenrollment process nationwide. But the decision to drop all those people may not be permanent.

Shooting exacted a toll on victim’s family, FBI agents

Second of two stories
Beverly Shabazz did not have a job and was seven months pregnant with her second child when her husband, Milton X Scott, was shot and killed outside their home in 1973 by FBI agents attempting to arrest him.

UL Lafayette engineering students make a splash

Boats of all shapes and sizes – from some of the world’s largest, most-luxurious yachts to sleek powerboats – cruise the waters near the Monaco Yacht Club on the Mediterranean Sea.

988 Lifeline volume grows since launch a year ago

BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Health’s Office of Behavioral Health (OBH) is celebrating the anniversary of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline this week with a focus on growth, increased capacity and the lives that are being changed wi