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Guard joins security for Bayou Classic
Agencies to launch Quarter security zone BY SOPHIE KASAKOVE
help to state and local police agencies in what officials called “eventbased support” unconnected to The Louisiana National Guard the longer-term deployment being will be in New Orleans this week sought by Gov. Jeff Landry. In what has become a new stanas visitors arrive for the annual Bayou Classic, providing security dard for securing sections of down-
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town during major events, the National Guard, Louisiana State Police and local law enforcement will implement an ”enhanced security zone” from Friday through Sunday that includes checkpoints, bag searches and a ban on coolers, according to Jacob Pucheu, a spokesperson for the Louisiana State Police.
Similar checkpoints in the French Quarter were put in place during Mardi Gras and Super Bowl LIX earlier this year after the deadly Jan. 1 terrorist attack on Bourbon Street exposed vulnerabilities in the city’s event security plans. The activation of the Guard comes as New Orleans is bracing
Dillard president outlines new vision for university
for the arrival of a federal Border Patrol deployment that has put immigrant communities on edge. Some 250 Border Patrol agents are expected to begin operating in the New Orleans area in coming days. Moreover, two months ago Landry requested a federally
ä See GUARD, page 6A
Judge tosses indictments of Comey, James Rulings say prosecutor illegally appointed
BY ERIC TUCKER Associated Press
Meanwhile, like universities nationwide, it is bracing for a “demographic cliff” when the falling birth rate will result in fewer students, and reeling from the Trump administration’s new restrictions to federal financial aid and slashed research funds. Dillard recently lost a $20 million federal grant that would have funded renovations to make campus buildings more energy efficient and
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump’s urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. The rulings from U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie halt at least for now a pair of prosecutions that had targeted two of the president’s most high-profile political opponents and amount to a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration’s legal maneuvering to install an inexperienced and loyalist prosecutor willing to file the cases. The orders do not concern the substance of the allegations against Comey or James but instead deal with the unconventional manner in which the prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, was named to her position as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Defense lawyers said the Trump administration had no legal authority to make the appointment. In a pair of similar rulings, Currie agreed and said the invalid appointment required the dismissal of the
ä See DILLARD, page 6A
ä See JUDGE, page 7A
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Monique Guillory, president of Dillard University, has taken steps to stabilize the university in her first year at the helm.
Changes aim to boost enrollment efforts at oldest HBCU in La.
Black college in Louisiana and a member of the so-called Black Ivy League — the headwinds the university faces have only intensified. Dillard’s enrollment has stagnated at around 1,000 students, while operational expenses have grown. At the same time, BY MARIE FAZIO the 156-year-old institution can someStaff writer times get overlooked in New Orleans’ Nearly a year after Monique Guillory crowded higher education market, where officially assumed the presidency of Dil- students have their pick of six four-year lard University — the oldest historically institutions.
Thanksgiving dinner prices down in La. Drop in cost of a turkey key factor in overall decrease
is $44.70, a slight decrease from $45.84 last year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The modest drop comes at a time when farmers are struggling with high overhead costs, the naBY IANNE SALVOSA tional turkey population continues to battle avian flu, and consumers Staff writer are starting to seek nontraditional Louisiana families can be thank- Thanksgiving meats. Each year, the American Farm ful for a lower price tag on this Bureau Federation computes the year’s Thanksgiving dinner. The average cost of a traditional cost of a typical 11-item ThanksThanksgiving dinner in Louisiana giving dinner that serves 10 people
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for its Thanksgiving Dinner Price Survey. Louisiana’s price this year is nearly $10 less than the national average of $55.18, and the secondlowest overall price in the country, just behind Arkansas. The cost decrease was led by a 16.3% drop in the price for a turkey in the past year. Nationwide, a 16-pound turkey will go for $21.50 this year, compared to $25.67 last year.
Nick Hudson looks at turkeys while shopping at a Rouses Market on Monday. STAFF PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON
ä See DINNER, page 7A
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