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Fire heavily damages historic Nottoway
Landry urges police to partner with ICE Use of local agencies has soared since Trump began immigration crackdown
BY JAMES FINN Staff writer
Louisiana state troopers are poised to start enforcing federal immigration laws under a controversial partnership that President Donald Trump has dramatically expanded in a bid to speed up immigration arrests and deportations. Gov. Jeff Landry issued an executive order Thursday urging local law enforcement agencies, too, to join the Department of Landry Homeland Security’s 287(g) program, which lets Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials delegate certain immigration enforcement duties to local cops working under ICE supervision. Federal agents alone typically have that authority. Louisiana State Police recently entered an agreement under the 287(g) program, Maj. Nick
ä See ICE, page 4A
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Fire crews move a line around as flames fully engulf Nottoway Resort on Thursday in White Castle.
‘We might just see the end of it’ BY QUINN COFFMAN and ELLYN COUVILLION
Staff writers
The Nottoway Resort plantation home in Iberville Parish caught fire Thursday afternoon and slowly went up in flames, causing massive damage to the 166–year-old house on the Mississippi River. The blaze started in the building’s south wing before spreading to the main house. Dozens of fire response vehicles, ambulances and civilian cars lined La. 1, as wind kicked billows of smoke into the sky. Officials on the scene Thursday evening said it was too early to judge the full damage from the fire, but as the sun
set, almost the entirety of the historic location was charred or had collapsed. The northern wing was gone, along with most of the mansion’s back wall. Only the chimneys remained on those sides, standing where the second and third floors once were. The facade and upper balcony had collapsed as well. “This thing was built in 1859, now we might just see the end of it,” said Jordan Ward, a deputy with the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office, as he watched the flames Thursday evening. As the roof of the main house collapsed, Iberville Parish Fire Department Director Shaun Bordelon said firefighters’
ä See FIRE, page 6A
Vape tax could be off table
Legislator pulls proposal from bill
BY MEGHAN FRIEDMANN Staff writer
Firefighters carry tools into the Nottoway Resort as they battle a fire on Thursday.
A new vape tax could be off the table after a legislator pulled the proposal from his bill in the Louisiana House on Wednesday. But state Rep. Ken Brass, D-Vacherie, said the Senate will consider whether to add such a tax back into House Bill 517 as the proposal proceeds through that chamber. “It’s a juggling act,” Brass said, adding that he was in negotiations with health advocates,
ä See VAPE, page 4A
Judge thwarts attorney general’s effort to take death penalty case 1995 conviction and death argument that Frank let her gument from the state in the Court date set in ex-N.O. officer’s appeal her sentence in an infamous triple claims languish too long, and a case of death row prisoner
BY JOHN SIMERMAN
New Orleans police officer AnStaff writer toinette Frank to an execution date after nearly three decades An Orleans Parish judge on on death row. Criminal District Judge Thursday dealt a blow to Attorney General Liz Murrill in Kimya Holmes set a Decemher attempt to push former ber hearing for Frank to fight
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murder, denying a motion to dismiss her post-conviction claims. Holmes also refused to allow Murrill’s office or the private attorneys she hired to represent the state in the case. The rulings amounted to a round rejection of Murrill’s
rebuke of the Republican attorney general’s efforts to inject herself in the case to speed up the pace of executions. Louisiana resumed the practice in March after 15 years. A judge in Rapides Parish this week denied a similar ar-
Larry Roy, convicted in a double murder. The Louisiana Supreme Court, in a pair of Caddo Parish cases, tore up two death warrants signed this year by a district judge, Donald Hatha-
ä See JUDGE, page 6A Murrill
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