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Duel-fuel turbine still good to go on natural gas as hurricane season kicks off.

Thomas was sentenced to 37 months in prison for accepting a bribe from a city contractor.

Shreveport police have charged six teens in connection with a string of vehicle burglaries dating back to late March.

Forecasters stated the locations expected to be impacted by the storm include New Orleans, Chalmette, and Gretna.

The curfew goes into effect Friday (June 1) for juveniles age 16 and younger.

Robert McCoy, convicted of murder and placed on Louisiana's death row is back in Shreveport-Bossier, waiting for his new trial.

The couple was arrested and charged with child desertion

A Pitkin couple and their son have been indicted for allegedly stealing more than $1 million from four livestock markets across the state in what a state agency described as a "cattle rustling ring."

An Alexandria woman faces negligent homicide and other charges after she allegedly hit a motorcycle and fled the scene.

People reacted with disbelief and anger over the death of Sherell Lewis Jr. and a racially-charged Snapchat allegedly made by driver Matthew Martin.

Shreveport police are looking for a man who allegedly made threats to kill his estranged girlfriend on social media Tuesday. 

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Friday it will remove the 'Trending' topics feature that compiles popular news from its social network, as it seeks to ensure users see news from trustworthy and quality sources.

New mineralized material has been developed than can regenerate hard tissues such as enamel and bone.

The development would not affect his operation of the Quail Farm event venue, owner John d'Hemecourt said.

Donnell Brown III surrendered to police with his attorney Friday morning (June 1), NOPD said.

A Baton Rouge man's convictions and sentences of life in prison plus 30 years in a fatal Spanish Town shooting in 2011 were affirmed Friday by a state appeals court.

Something has become increasingly weird about the DOJ and FBI intransigence at releasing the two-page “Electronic Communication” (“EC”) tha...

Individuals are still at risk from the outbreak

Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi seems to have reached peak cognitive dissonance this morning.

Following the better than expected jobs data pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest in almost 50 years, the California politician issued a statement seemingly proclaiming that all of this is bad news for US workers.

 

In March of last year - after a 235k job gain, Pelosi was more excited about the strong jobs number, proudly proclaiming that the strong jobs number was due to Obama:

“February’s jobs numbers indicate the enduring power of President Obama’s economic leadership.

The firm foundation for growth created under the Obama Administration continues to deliver, but President Trump is taking dangerous steps that will hollow out our economy and weaken working families."

Which is odd, because in fact, Americans' confidence in the economy has almost never been higher and it is the lowest income Americans that have seen the biggest rise in confidence...

She added

"After 50 days in office, President Trump still has not put forward a single significant jobs bill... it will destroy millions of jobs and create chaos throughout the economy."

Which is odd, because in fact, since that March statement, Trump's administration has added 1.821 million jobs to the US economy based on BLS data.

So given her extreme disappointment in the fact that her predictions of doom and gloom did not work out, perhaps it is little wonder that following today's strong jobs numbers, she felt the need to go full Orwell - "war is peace, love is hate, jobs are bad"...

In a statement on the May Jobs reports, Pelosi explained that:

"May’s jobs report shows that strong employment numbers mean little to the families hit with soaring new costs under the Republicans’ watch."

Seemingly doubling-down on her elitist "crumbs" remarks over Trump's tax-cuts, Pelosi then whined:

“... the President’s reckless policies are exploding gas prices, wiping out the few meager gains that some families should have received from the GOP tax scam, as wages remain stagnant.

Which is odd, because in fact, wage growth is near its best (admittedly slow) since June 2009...

And which is also odd, because in fact, while gas prices are up notably, they are just back to Nov 2014 levels, well below the wallet-crushing levels during President Obama's reign...and in fact perfectly in line with the average gas price at the pump during Obama's entire 8 years...

Pelosi ends with her pitch for what The Democrats plan is - aside from being "not Trump" that is...

“Democrats know that the American people deserve A Better Deal, with Better Jobs, Better Wages and a Better Future. 

We are committed to creating millions of new good-paying jobs and raising wages, lowering the soaring cost of living for families and giving every American the tools to succeed in the 21st Century economy.  Democrats will never stop fighting for the hard-working middle class families who are the backbone of our nation.”

Which is odd, because in fact, the biggest driver of soaring cost of living is her glorious leader's Obamacare scheme...

So, the Democrats want to fight The Fed's reflationary credit-creating ways, and at the same time create faster wage growth in already reportedly 'overheating and tight' labor market?

We wonder what she thinks about record low black unemployment rates?

Though we are sure that is a terrible thing!!!

The U.S. Navy is exercising an option in its contract with Rolls-Royce, awarding the company $28.3 million for engines for the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft.

Halifax Regional Police say Shelley’s body was found exactly 25 years ago on June 1.

A group of citizens is trying to lift a ban that is keeping the Pearl River Police Chief from going to the Honey Island Swamp Fest this weekend.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba and the United States are making the re-establishment of postal services permanent after a trial run, the state-run Cuban News Agency reported on Friday, as cooperation in some areas inches forward despite a chill in relations under the Trump administration.

Oregon student Addison Barnes never thought he would create a national uproar when he wore a T-shirt saying “Donald J. Trump Border Wall Construction Co.” with a direct quote from the president stating: “The wall just got 10 feet taller.”

But educators at Liberty High School in the Hillsboro School District felt the pro-wall message created a “hostile learning environment,” and they suspended the 18-year-old senior.

Barnes sued, and now a judge has taken the student’s side, granting a temporary restraining order allowing him to wear the shirt to class.

“The T-shirt is core protected speech, and walking down the streets of Hillsboro, no state official – petty or grand – would be able to do much about that T-shirt legitimately under the Constitution,” Judge Michael Mosman said, according to the Oregonian.

“This particular school district has a population that is one-third Hispanic,” attorney Peter Mersereau argued for the district.

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He suggested educators on campus could “reasonably forecast the T-shirt would disrupt the school.”

But the judge interjected, “So First Amendment protections vary from high school to high school?”

The Oregonian reported:

 … Mosman found the Hillsboro School District could not justify its censorship. The judge said he balanced constitutionally protected speech with the orderly running of a school.

The school district is entitled to be concerned about the response of other students to the T-shirt, the judge said. But the “thin” court record so far offers little support for the district’s argument that the shirt could “substantially disrupt” the school, he said.

“There’s not enough to go on here to show that sort of legitimate concern justifying censorship of this core political speech,” Mosman ruled.

After the decision, when asked if Barnes would sport the T-shirt before class gets out for the summer, his attorney Bradley Benbrook told the paper, “Yeah, that was the idea.”

As WND previously reported, Barnes’ class had been discussing the topic of immigration the morning the controversy over the shirt began.

“The T-shirt was just a representation of my political beliefs,” Barnes told KGW News.

The teen’s confidence was short-lived, however. During class, Assistant Principal Amanda Ryan-Fear came to the classroom and removed Barnes, directing him to cover the shirt because, she claimed, at least one other student and a teacher had said the shirt “offended” them.

Barnes complied and was sent back to class. But as he sat in his seat, thinking over what had just happened, he decided the assistant principal was wrong and had no right to order him to cover the shirt, so he uncovered it.

“I thought to myself, ‘You know this isn’t right, this is my First Amendment right to be able to wear this shirt,'” Barnes said.

Later in the period, Ryan-Fear returned to the classroom and observed Barnes and his shirt. She had him removed to her office by a security guard and threatened him with suspension for “defiance,” reiterating the claim others were “offended.” Given the choice to cover the shirt or be sent home for the day, Barnes went home.

It was not until the following Monday, when Barnes and his father met with Principal Greg Timmons, that the student learned his absence was being treated as a suspension and that the student and teacher who, it had been claimed, said they were “offended” now reportedly said they felt “threatened” by the shirt. While the one-day suspension was vacated, the teen was threatened with future suspensions if he wore the shirt to school again.

Barnes abided by the school’s demand, but did wear the shirt briefly in April for an interview in a fellow student’s documentary on the First Amendment. When the student submitted the documentary, he was directed by the teacher and the administration to blur or obscure the T-shirt before his school project could be uploaded to the school’s online learning platform.

The school’s refusal to recognize Barnes’ First Amendment right to engage in “a silent, passive expression” on a political and social issue of the day, “unaccompanied by any disorder or disturbance” by him resulted in his lawsuit against the high school, the district and Principal Timmons.

The school was also accused of selectively deciding which “offensive” messages are permitted on campus. In the filing, it was noted that one of Barnes’ teachers prominently displayed a sign in the front of the classroom stating “Sanctuary City, Welcome Home,” a message – like that on the T-shirt – at the heart of the current debate on immigration.

The Oregon chapter of the ACLU weighed in on Barnes’ behalf, although grudgingly:

“The school clearly crossed the line when it required a student to remove a T-shirt that voiced support for Donald Trump’s border wall or face a suspension, legal director Mat dos Santos told KGW. “This shirt is mean spirited, but it isn’t a ‘disturbance’ under First Amendment case law.

“It is disappointing that Liberty High School decided to censor the student instead of inviting the student body to discuss immigration, the freedom of speech, and the impacts of xenophobic rhetoric. Schools have a responsibility to teach our youth how to engage in thoughtful conversations about difficult and potentially offensive subject matters. Censorship doesn’t work and often just elevates the subject the government is trying to silence.”

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The controversial leftwing hate group Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is spewing out misinformation about Fred Fleitz, National Security Adviser John Bolton’s newly named executive secretary and chief of staff of the National Security Council.

The fallout from Samantha Bee's decision to call Ivanka Trump a "feckless c*nt" continues, as prominent advertisers Autotrader and State Farm pulled their ads from her show on Thursday -- this presenting a particularly troubling development for Bee, whose ratings have plummeted from last year.

The Television Academy banned the media from an event where foul-mouthed TBS late-night host Samantha Bee received an award for her show's "inspirational content," on the same day she was forced to apologize for calling White House adviser Ivanka Trump a "feckless c**t."

UK rampage: Man wields huge hunting knife in terrifying attack.