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Jan 8, 2025 | argus-press.com | Jim Mustian |Jack Brook |Stephen Smith |Sara Cline |Stephen Smith

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans mourned, wept and danced at a vigil Saturday evening along the famous thoroughfare where a man rammed a pickup truck into a crowd, killing and injuring revelers who were there to celebrate the new year. A makeshift memorial of crosses and pictures of the 14 deceased victims included candles, flowers and teddy bears. Victims' relatives held each other, some crying.

Jan 7, 2025 | argus-press.com | Jim Mustian |Jack Brook |Stephen Smith |Sara Cline |Stephen Smith

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The man who rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans had suspected bomb-making materials at his home and reserved the vehicle used in the deadly attack more than six weeks earlier, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Friday.

Dec 25, 2024 | argus-press.com | Terry Chea |Stephen Smith |Stefanie Dazio

Sep 29, 2024 | argus-press.com | Heather Hollingsworth |Stephen Smith |Stephen Smith

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An enormous Hurricane Helene swamped parts of Mexico on Wednesday as it churned on a path forecasters said would take it to Florida as a potentially catastrophic storm with a surge that could swallow entire homes, a chilling warning that sent residents scrambling for higher ground, closed schools, and led to states of emergency throughout the Southeast.

Jul 30, 2024 | argus-press.com | James Pollard |Julie Watson |Stephen Smith |Julie Watson |Stephen Smith

GLOSTER, Miss. (AP) — This southern Mississippi town's expansive wood pellet plant was so close to Shelia Mae Dobbins' home that she sometimes heard company loudspeakers. She says industrial residues coated her truck and she no longer enjoys spending time in the air outdoors. Dobbins feels her life — and health — were better before 2016, when United Kingdom energy giant Drax opened a facility able to compress 450,000 tons of wood chips annually in the majority Black town of Gloster, Mississippi.