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Landry issues order over SNAP funds

Governor joins officials to keep benefits going

SNAP benefits, according to October 2025 data from the Governor’s halted on Nov. 1 due to the federal Office. BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT government shutdown. Landry on Friday declared a and ALYSE PFEIL If Congress does not pass a bill state of emergency over the isStaff writers to fund the federal government by sue. In a news release, he said, Gov. Jeff Landry and the Loui- the end of the month, the Supple- “We should not allow our elderly, siana Legislature are intervening mental Nutrition Assistance Pro- disabled, or children to go hungry.” “Our social security net is supto stop SNAP benefits, otherwise gram will run out of money. Nearknown as food stamps, from being ly 800,000 Louisiana residents get posed to help the most vulnerable,

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can tap for emergencies with a two-thirds vote of each chamber. It also notes that the Legislature is currently in Baton Rouge for a special session on and we will try to accomplish this election dates. “We receive about $150 milwith today’s action,” he said. The executive order notes that lion a month from the federal Louisiana has a Revenue Stabiliä See SNAP, page 6A zation Fund that the Legislature

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Judge denies state push for death sentence

an LSU student execuLa. Supreme killed tion style more than 30 years Court reviews ago. Dale Dwayne Craig, now resentencing case 51, was one of four teens

BY MATT BRUCE Staff writer

Inside a Baton Rouge courtroom on Friday, the first domino fell in an emerging showdown over the national ban on capital punishment for juvenile offenders. Citing a lack of authority to usurp federal law, 19th Judicial District Chief Judge Donald Johnson quashed a motion from the Louisiana Attorney General to reinstate the death sentence of a man who was a week shy of his 18th birthday when he

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Jackie Baham has a close-up look at the live shrimp display on Oct. 18 during the Louisiana Shrimp Festival and Shrimp Aid at the Broadside in New Orleans.

With the help of a scientist on a mission, Gulf shrimp industry battles fraudulent labeling BY JOSIE ABUGOV

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Dave Williams has been to hundreds of seafood restaurants across the South over the past year, and he isn’t hunting for the best shrimp po-boy or crawﬁsh étouffée. From Texas to North Carolina — and at more than 200 restaurants and three festivals in Louisiana — the commercial ﬁsheries scientist and his team have collected minuscule shrimp samples for a rapid genetic test. The goal

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is to determine whether the restaurant is serving local shrimp or foreign imports. It’s all part of Williams’ mission to help revitalize the Gulf of Mexico’s ailing coastal industry. Williams, who does this work through his company SeaD Consulting, presented his findings to Louisiana shrimpers and seafood enthusiasts at the Louisiana Shrimp Festival and Shrimp Aid at the Broadside in Mid-City earlier this month. Attendees

Dave Williams, of SeaD Consulting, makes a presentation on distinguishing local shrimp ä See SHRIMP, page 7A from imports during the festival.

convicted of kidnapping and torturing Kipp Earl Gullett, an 18-year-old freshman at LSU, during a fatal September 1992 carjacking. After the teens drove Gullett to a secluded construction site, Craig ﬁred several bullets into his head and body as he lay in a fetal position. Craig was convicted of first-degree murder, and a jury unanimously elected to condemn him to death in 1994. He remained on death row until 2005, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled

ä See JUDGE, page 4A

U.S. sending aircraft carrier to Latin America

ä Trump administration imposes sanctions on Colombian president, his WASHINGTON — The U.S. family and a member of his military is sending an airgovernment. PAGE 3A craft carrier to the waters BY KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press

off South America, the Pentagon announced Friday, in the latest escalation of military firepower in a region where the Trump administration has unleashed more rapid strikes in recent days against boats it accuses of carrying drugs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group to deploy to the U.S. Southern Command region to “bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt

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illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said on social media. The USS Ford, which has ﬁve destroyers in its strike group, is now deployed to the Mediterranean Sea. One of its destroyers is in the Arabian Sea and another is

ä See CARRIER, page 7A

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