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Few with criminal records netted in La. sweeps Only 10% so far, government stats show
BY JAMES FINN Staff writer
Like their predecessors in Chicago and North Carolina, the federal government’s south Louisiana immigration sweeps set out to arrest violent criminals. Since the operation started, officials have touted arrests of “murderers, rapists and pedophiles.” But by the government’s own count, fewer than 10% of people captured in the sweeps launched the first week of December around New Orleans have criminal histories of any kind. On Thursday, eight days into the operation, the Department of Homeland Security issued the first comprehensive tally of people the sweeps have captured, saying 250 people had been arrested across Louisiana. Some details — including the geographic
ABOVE: A ribbon-cutting is held Friday for the unveiling of a mural that pays tribute to legendary zydeco musician brothers Clifton and Cleveland Chenier at The Funky Flea in Sunset. The mural was designed and painted by Louisiana artists Liz and Jed Cornett. RIGHT: C.J. Chenier, his wife, Anita Chenier, and their granddaughter Kelsey Arvie, 3, attend the mural unveiling.
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Attack on Australian Hanukkah event kills 15
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Authorities say father, son opened fire at beach
Crashes along new Amtrak route cause concern BY POET WOLFE and MARTHA SANCHEZ
Chase Craddock, to return to their home in Long Beach, Mississippi, where the couple cared for his father and grandmother. As Geneva Ellegant sat outside her Ala- they crossed the tracks in Pass Christian, bama home on a Tuesday morning, re- Mississippi, an Amtrak train on the new membering her daughter’s witty humor, Mardi Gras route between New Orleans gift for painting and beautiful singing and Mobile struck their vehicle. Both were killed. She was 24, and he was 31. voice.
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cluding the one where her daughter died — have only flashing lights and no gates. Two more crashes have occurred along the service since: One in Gautier, Mississippi, in November that killed a 40-year-old man, and another in Irvington, Alabama,
SYDNEY — Two gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, killing 15 people, including a child, officials said Monday, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism that struck at the heart of the nation. The shooters were father and son, authorities said. The massacre at one of Australia’s most popular beaches followed a wave of antisemitic attacks that have roiled the country over the past year, although
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Since the crash, Geneva Ellegant has was my easy child,” Ellegant said Miss. plans to install more of“She feared that fatal collisions like the one in Tavianna, who went by Tavi. Nearly three months earlier, Tavi El- September could become more common lights, gates at crossings legant had left work with her boyfriend, along the line, where some crossings — in-
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