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Darra Ann Morales, right, shows a photo of her son Chaz Morales and his family on her phone, as Chaz Jr., 10, comforts his grandmother at their home in Slidell, La., Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Darra Ann Morales is the mother and Chaz Jr. is the son of Chaz Morales, who is one of the crew members missing from the capsized vessel Seacor Power that departed from Port Fourchon when severe weather struck Tuesday. (Max Becherer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

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Weather hinders search for survivors of La. shipwreck

by Stacey Plaisance Associated Press, Kevin McGill Associated Press, and Jeff Martin Associated PressApril 15, 2021

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2020 file photo, David Shaw, foreground, frontman for the band The Revivalists, performs with actor Harry Shearer, co-author and character in the movie "This Is Spinal Tap," as they record a video stream concert with the band Galactic, inside an empty Tipitina's music club, in New Orleans. Entertainment venues in New Orleans have been given permission to start hosting live music again starting this weekend, but under strict regulations. Mayor LaToya Cantrell...

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Music? Yes. Dancing? No, as New Orleans eases virus rules

by Kevin McGill Associated PressMarch 10, 2021

Jane McDow walks with her dog 'Duke' along the Lake Pontchartrain seawall in New Orleans, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. Hurricane Zeta is expected to make landfall this afternoon as a category 2 storm. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Hurricane slams La.

by Kevin McGill Associated Press, Stacey Plaisance Associated Press, and Rebecca Santana Associated PressOctober 28, 2020

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2012 file photo, female soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division train on a firing range while testing new body armor in Fort Campbell, Ky. A federal appeals court in New Orleans upheld the constitutionality of the all-male military draft system Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020, citing a 1981 U.S. Supreme Court decision. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said “only the Supreme Court may revise its precedent.” (AP Photo/Mark...

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Appeals court: Male-only draft is constitutional

by Kevin McGill Associated PressAugust 13, 2020

FILE - In this April 26, 2008 file photo, Dr. John performs during the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans. The family of the Louisiana-born musician known as Dr. John says the celebrated singer and piano player who blended black and white musical influence with a hoodoo-infused stage persona and gravelly bayou drawl, has died. He was 77. A family statement released by his publicist says Dr. John, who was born Mac Rebennack, died early Thursday of a heart attack. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

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Iconic musician Dr. John, bayou funk master, dies at 77

by Kevin McGill Associated Press, and Cain Burdeau Associated PressJune 6, 2019

This booking image released by the Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal shows Holden Matthews, 21, who was arrested Thursday, April 11, 2019, in connection with suspicious fires at three historic black churches in southern Louisiana. Matthews faces three counts of simple arson of a religious building on the state charges. Federal investigators also were looking into whether hate motivated the fires. (Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal via AP)

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Deputy’s son accused of setting fires at black churches

by Melinda Deslatte Associated Press, and Kevin McGill Associated PressApril 12, 2019

In this Feb. 26, 2019 photo, artist Aaron Angelo takes a sledgehammer to the leg of a baby grand piano in a house where two rooms are being transformed to look as they might have looked once floodwaters receded following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The house sits in front of one of the flood walls that failed when Katrina hit nearly 14 years ago. The nonprofit group Levees.org bought the house and is transforming it as part of its effort to educate the public on the causes of the 2005 flood. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill)

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Sorrow revisited: Re-creating Katrina’s muck in New Orleans

by Kevin McGill Associated Press, and Stacey Plaisance Associated PressMarch 21, 2019

From left, Laura Cunningham, 10, Hunter Shows and Brandon Perry, 10, watch the waves crash from Tropical Storm Gordon Tuesday on Dauphin Island, Ala.

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Tropical Storm Gordon slams Gulf Coast

by Stacey Plaisance Associated Press, and Kevin McGill Associated PressSeptember 5, 2018

In this Nov. 9, 2007, photo, music legend Fats Domino performs on the NBC "Today" television show in New York. Domino has died at 89.

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Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Fats Domino has died at age 89

by Janet McConnaughey Associated Press, and Kevin McGill Associated PressOctober 25, 2017

Jefferson Parish, La., authorities and others from other parishes respond to an oil rig explosion in Lake Pontchartrain off Kenner, Louisiana, on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017. The Advocate via AP/Matthew Hinton

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UPDATED: One missing after oil rig explodes on Louisiana lake

by Kevin McGill Associated PressOctober 16, 2017