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Louisiana gubernatorial candidate Jeff Landry speaks to supporters during a watch party at Broussard Ballroom, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in Broussard, La. Landry begins his first term with redrawing districts and discussing immigration. (Brad Kemp/The Advocate via AP)

[Photo] Jeff Landry elected governor

Jacob L'Hommedieu, Worldview Editor
October 19, 2023
West Virginia University senior Mailyn Sadler leads a protest in the university's free speech zone outside the Mountainlair student union against cuts to programs in world languages, creative writing and more amid a $45 million budget deficit in Morgantown, W.Va., on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)

[Photo] OPINION: Rise to the challenges before us

M Isabel Medina
August 24, 2023
Person using Artificial Intelligence software on their computer to complete their work.

[Photo] Chatbot cheating threat is real, but manageable

Patrick Hamilton, News Editor
February 16, 2023
This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. Loyola will no longer require proof of vaccination to attend university events or use university facilities.

[Photo] Booster shot now available at Student Health Center

Kloe Witt, Breaking News Editor
January 24, 2023
A group of Ukrainian protesters demonstrate near the Chateau de Versailles, where a European Union summit will take place, Thursday, March 10, 2022 in Versailles, west of Paris. With European nations united in backing Ukraine's resistance with unprecedented economic sanctions, three main topics now dominate the agenda: Ukraine's application for fast-track EU membership; how to wean the bloc off its Russian energy dependency; and bolstering the region's defense capabilities. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

[Photo] Study abroad students react to tensions in the Ukraine

Artie Bennett, News Editor
March 24, 2022
In this Friday, May 8, 2020, photo taken by David Grunfeld for The Advocate and AP, Bourbon sits empty and abandoned during COVID-19. Grunfeld, along with other local journalists, has had to communicate the stories of the city while also avoiding social contact during COVID-19. (David Grunfeld/The Advocate via AP)

[Photo] New Orleans journalists face furloughs, memories of Katrina

Rose Wagner and Gabriella Killett
May 14, 2020
In this Thursday, March 19, file photo, a view of the nearly deserted scene on Bourbon Street, which is normally bustling with tourists at restaurants and bars. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, New Orleans has shut down bars and eliminated restaurant dining, leaving local servers out of work. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

[Photo] Restaurant servers are left out of work due to COVID-19

Alexandria Whitten
March 26, 2020
A voter checks her ballots after coming out of a booth while voting in the primary election, Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Mechanic Falls, Maine. Voters in Louisiana will have to wait until June to cast their primary ballots, as the state delayed its primaries in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

[Photo] Louisiana becomes first state to delay presidential primaries

Rose Wagner
March 13, 2020
This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). New Orleans health officials encourage Mardi Gras goers to take extra health precautions to protect themselves from the coronavirus, along with the flu.

[Photo] Health officials warn of germs during Mardi Gras

Alexandria Whitten
February 5, 2020
FILE - This Sept. 11, 2018, file photo shows a marijuana plant in the coastal mountain range of San Luis Obispo, Calif. Organizations like CommonSenseNOLA want marijuana to be legalized in Louisiana. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

[Photo] Medical marijuana debate lights up Louisiana

Christian Willbern
May 2, 2019
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[Photo] The ongoing border wall saga lacks resolution

March 19, 2019
FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2018, file photo, a home burns as the Camp Fire rages through Paradise, Calif. California wildland managers announced a plan to speed up logging and prescribed burns designed to protect communities from wildfires, at a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. The effort would create a single environmental review process to cover vegetation reduction projects, field breaks and restoration projects. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

[Photo] President Trump’s comments fan the flames of California wildfire crisis

Francesca Du Broca
January 31, 2019
FILE - This Aug. 29, 2018 photo shows an arrangement of prescription Oxycodone pills in New York. In a report released on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, health officials are looking into a possible link between prescription opioids and a birth defect called gastroschisis. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

[Photo] Opioid-related deaths continue to rise in the U.S., New Orleans

John Casey
January 28, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during an organizing event at Manchester Community College in Manchester, N.H., Saturday, Jan.12, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

[Photo] Democrats double down for 2020 election

Emma Ruby
January 19, 2019
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[Photo] Bye Eagles Bye: The New Orleans Saints are on to the next one

January 17, 2019
This Nov. 9, 2018, photo shows a Scan & Go checkout area at a Walmart Supercenter in Houston. Retailers will once again offer big deals and early hours to lure shoppers into their stores for the start of the holiday season. But they'll also try to get shoppers out of their stores faster than ever by minimizing the thing they hate most: long lines. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

[Photo] Benson brings holiday cheer early for Walmart customers

Andres Fuentes
December 4, 2018
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[Photo] Dusky Gopher Frogs find no love in the Supreme Court

Cristo Dulom
November 29, 2018
FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2018 file photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks in support of Maryland Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous at a campaign rally in Bethesda, Md. Sanders is seeking reelection in Vermont's Nov. 6 general election. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

[Photo] Democratic Socialism in a new age of politics

Cody Downey
November 13, 2018
FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2018 file photo, then Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Just 1 in 4 people think Brett Kavanaugh was completely honest during his pivotal testimony last month to the Senate Judiciary Committee. That’s according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File, Pool)

[Photo] Sexual assault takes center stage on Supreme Court

Tyler Wann
October 30, 2018
A man holds a poster of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero during a precession, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018. SALVADOR MELENDEZ/AP.

[Photo] Opinion: In life or death, Monsignor Oscar Romero is my saint

Berta Alvarado
October 28, 2018
FILE- In this Aug. 2, 2018, file photo, New York Giants cornerback Eli Apple works out during NFL football training camp in East Rutherford, N.J. The Giants traded Apple to the New Orleans Saints on Tuesday, Oct. 23. 2018. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

[Photo] Column: Saints are going for broke

Andrew Lang
October 28, 2018
The tapestry of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero hangs from a balcony of the facade of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018. Pope Francis will canonize two of the most important and contested figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church, declaring Pope Paul VI and the martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero as models of saintliness for the faithful today. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

[Photo] Opinion: En la vida o la muerte, Monseñor Oscar Romero es mi santo

Berta Alvarado
October 28, 2018
This undated photo provided by Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues shows a snake named in honor of environmental biologist Bob Thomas. Thomas us the environmental biologist and head of the Center for Environmental Communication at Loyola University New Orleans. He says he has a picture of the snake on his wall, and it makes him smile every time he looks at it. (Courtesy of Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues via AP)

[Photo] New snake species named after Loyola professor

Andres Fuentes
October 25, 2018
FILE - In this June 15, 2017, file photo, a customer inserts a Mastercard credit card to pay for parking in Haverhill, Mass. Mastercard rolled out a digital trade platform Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, designed to make it easier for companies to do business around the world. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

[Photo] Students crumble under looming debt

Saylor Britt
October 23, 2018
Kenner Mayor Ben Zahn rescinds his order banning the city’s recreation department from purchasing Nike products for use at city recreation facilities, during a news conference, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, at Veteran's Park in Kenner, La. (Scott Threlkeld/The Advocate via AP)

[Photo] Kenner rescinds Nike ban following backlash

John Casey
September 24, 2018
In this Aug. 7, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, officiates at the swearing-in of Judge Britt Grant to take a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at the U.S. District Courthouse in Washington. Kavanaugh has expressed concern about federal agencies running amok. But his view that they should adhere strictly to laws passed by Congress worries liberals. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

[Photo] Praise and fear surround Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination

August 19, 2018
In this Dec. 2, 2015, file photo, Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk delivers a speech at the Paris Pantheon Sorbonne University as part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. For years, Tesla has boasted that its cars and SUVs are safer than other vehicles on the roads, and CEO Elon Musk doubled down on the claims in a series of tweets this week. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

[Photo] Opinion: What Elon Musk doesn’t get about journalism

Jc Canicosa
May 28, 2018
This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. Bills seeking to tax opioids have been introduced in Alaska, California, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia. Nearly all of them have been introduced since 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

[Photo] University officials reach out to students with drug issues

Mairéad Siobhán
May 7, 2018
New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis reacts after making a 3-point shot during the first half of Game 4 of the team's first-round NBA basketball playoff series against the Portland Trail Blazers in New Orleans, Saturday, April 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Scott Threlkeld)

[Photo] Column: Pelicans shaking up the New Orleans sports scene

Andrew Lang
April 28, 2018
File- This Dec. 19, 2009, file photo shows New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson walking on the field before the NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys in New Orleans. Benson, a successful auto dealer who brought the New Orleans Saints their only winning seasons and the "Benson Boogie," has died. Benson, who has also owned the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans since 2012, was 90. The NFL and NBA teams announced Benson’s death on Thursday, March 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

[Photo] Column: How I remember Tom Benson

Andrew Lang
March 21, 2018
Gov. John Bel Edwards pauses before speaking at a press conference after the legislature adjourned sine die to end the special session to address the state's fiscal crisis Monday, March 5, 2018, in Baton Rouge, La. (Bill Feig/The Advocate via AP)

[Photo] Editorial: Legislators: educating Louisiana’s youth is worth raising taxes

Nick Reimann
March 9, 2018
People walk among a makeshift memorial outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and faculty were killed in a mass shooting on Wednesday, in Parkland, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. Nikolas Cruz, a 19-year-old who had been expelled from the school, is being held without bail in the Broward County Jail, accused of 17 counts of first-degree murder. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Photo credit: Associated Press

[Photo] Editorial: We won’t forget Parkland. We can’t — not again.

February 23, 2018
Left to right Reps. Johnny Berthelot, R-Gonzales; Reid Falconer, R-Mandeville; Jack McFarland, R-Winnfield; and Lance Harris, R-Alexandria, talk about taxes Jan. 22, 2018, ahead of Gov. John Bel Edwards' presentation of his worst-case scenario budget if lawmakers don't replace $1 billion in expiring taxes. MELINDA DESLATTE/AP.

[Photo] Massive TOPS cuts could impact Loyola

Rich Simmerman
January 25, 2018
This May 16, 2015 photo shows oil drillings offshore of a service pier in the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of Southern California near Carpinteria. The surface temperature of the North Atlantic Ocean are climbing at unprecedented rates. (AP Photo/John Antczak)

[Photo] Trump’s offshore drilling plan met with hostility and support

Miles Rouen
January 18, 2018
FILE - In this June 17, 2015 file photo, medical marijuana plants grow at LifeLine Labs in Cottage Grove, Minn. When U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions green-lighted federal prosecutors to pursue violators of federal marijuana laws, not only states that legalized recreational pot are at risk of a crackdown, but so is most of the rest of America. All but four states allow some form of medical marijuana, even Sessions' home state of Alabama. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

[Photo] Louisiana could lose medical marijuana

Jc Canicosa
January 17, 2018
In this Oct. 13, 2017 photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a dinner hosted by the Washington Policy Center in Bellevue, Wash. Efforts to improve education nationwide are coming to fruition under DeVos, as made evident by the $13 million grant from the Department of Education to New Orleans institutions. Photo credit: Associated Press

[Photo] Loyola one of six New Orleans recipients of Department of Education Grant

Jack Deorio and John Casey
December 9, 2017
Brittiny McNeil holds the hat and flag of her late husband New Orleans Police Officer Marcus McNeil while she is comforted by her daughter Camille McNeil, 2, left, next to her other daughter, Maisie McNeil, 5, bottom right, and McNeil's mother Kimberly McNeil, top right, and his grandmother Alvena McNeil at Mount Olivet Cemetery during his funeral in New Orleans, La., Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Michael Harrison, left, and Mayor Mitch Landrieu, second left, stand with hands over their hearts. McNeil, 29, was shot and killed Oct. 13 during a routine patrol. (Matthew Hinton/The Advocate via AP) Photo credit: Associated Press

[Photo] City mourns fallen police officer

John Casey
October 24, 2017
Jefferson Parish, La., authorities and others from other parishes respond to an oil rig explosion in Lake Pontchartrain off Kenner, La., Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017. (Matthew Hinton/The Advocate via AP) Photo credit: Associated Press

[Photo] Gas platform explodes on Lake Ponchartrain

John Casey
October 18, 2017
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[Photo] Editorial: Voting in local elections is important

October 13, 2017
In this Sept. 15, 2017 photo, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos talks with Gracie Johnson during a hog roast before a high school football game between Eastern Hancock and Knightstown in Charlottesville, Ind. DeVos uses a private jet to fly around the country to tour schools and attend other work events, the Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Photo credit: Associated Press

[Photo] DeVos rescinds Obama-era sexual assault guidelines

Rose Wagner
September 30, 2017
Demetres Fair holds a towel over his daughter Damouri Fair, 2, as they are rescued by boat by members of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the Houston Fire Department during flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Photo credit: Associated Press

[Photo] Hurricane Harvey slams Houston, U.S. Gulf Coast

John Casey
August 30, 2017
FILE - This July 28, 2017, file photo distributed by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. America’s annual joint military exercises with South Korea always frustrate North Korea. Some experts say North Korea is mainly focused on the bigger picture of testing its bargaining power against the United States with its new long-range missiles and likely has no interest in letting things get too tense during the drills. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

[Photo] North Korean nuclear threats could hit close to home — literally

John Casey
August 21, 2017
In this image taken on Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, a customer drinks an espresso coffee at a traditional coffee bar in Milan, Italy. Longtime CEO Howard Schultz's vision for Starbucks was largely inspired by the Milan coffee bars he experienced on his first trip to the northern Italian city in 1983. Schultz will continue on with the company to open ''the quintessential Roastery'' in Milan by the end of 2018. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

[Photo] Opinion: Stop drinking coffee and switch to better alternatives

Brianna Cunningham, Tulane Americorp, ShopLocal
March 14, 2017
A woman holds up a sign that reads in Spanish " Women against hunger, down with the dictatorship" during a protest against violence against women, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. Thousands of women are marching to commemorate International Women’s Day around the world. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

[Photo] Opinion: How we need to combat the Venezuelan crisis

Georgia Smith, marketing and managment junior
March 14, 2017
FILE - This Nov. 4, 2016 file photo shows Beyonce performing at a Get Out the Vote concert for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Cleveland. Beyonce was sued in federal court on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, for $20 million by the estate of a late New Orleans YouTube star over the use of his voice in her song “Formation.” (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

[Photo] Opinion: Don’t bank on the Grammys getting it right this year

Kameron Hay
February 10, 2017
Alexandre Bissonnette is escorted to a van Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, in Quebec City, after appearing in court for Sunday's deadly shooting at a mosque. The French Canadian suspect known for his far-right, nationalist views was charged Monday with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder in the shooting rampage at the Quebec City mosque that Canada's prime minister called an act of terrorism again Muslims. (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press via AP)

[Photo] BRIEF: 1 person charged after Canada mosque shooting

January 31, 2017
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, left, and Jared Kushner, senior adviser to President Donald Trump, arrive for a meeting with business leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

[Photo] BRIEF: Priebus: No regrets that Holocaust statement didn’t refer to Jews

Colleen Dulle
January 31, 2017
Liliana Wendorff holds a sign at First Ward Park during Saturday's Women's March on Charlotte, N.C., which drew at least 10,000 people according to CMPD. The mile-long march was scheduled to coincide with a national demonstration Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington, D.C., the day after Donald Trump's inauguration as president. The march started at First Ward Park, traveled down Tryon Street to 4th St. to Church St. and ended at Romare Bearden Park. "The Women's March on Charlotte is a first step in uniting our communities and in empowering grassroots change," march organizers say on the march's website. "We will work peacefully to send a bold message to our elected leaders that women's rights are human rights." (Diedra Laird/The Charlotte Observer via AP)

[Photo] Opinion: Donald Trump does not reflect the values of the Republican Party

January 25, 2017
This photo taken Dec. 8, 2009 shows Ruth Ndiagne Dorsey with a Kwanzaa setting set up at her church, The Shrine of the Black Madonna, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis) Photo credit: Associated Press/John Amis

[Photo] Kwanzaa: A time of reflection, celebration and family

Jessamyn Reichmann
December 4, 2016
J.P. Holyoak, chair of the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, speaks at a news conference as he is joined by a host of doctors and nurses gather at the Arizona capitol to endorse Prop 205, the legalization of recreational marijuana, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

[Photo] Majority of Americans may soon be living with legal marijuana

Jc Canicosa
November 7, 2016
This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. More than 28,000 Americans died from overdosing on opiates in 2014, a record high for the nation. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

[Photo] Substance abuse on the rise, linked to mental health

Haley Pegg
October 29, 2016
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump debate during the third presidential debate at UNLV in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. (Mark Ralston/Pool via AP)

[Photo] Trump refuses to accept election not rigged

Nick Reimann
October 25, 2016
A Pakistani woman hangs strips of salted meat she collected from different places during the Muslim's Eid al-Adha or Festival of Sacrifice, in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016. Pakistanis are celebrating the Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, to mark the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim -- Abraham to Christians and Jews -- to sacrifice his son. During the holiday Muslims slaughter sheep and cattle, distribute part of the meat to the poor. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

[Photo] A Worldwide Feast

September 21, 2016
This NOAA satellite image taken Monday, Sept. 5, 2016, at 09:45 AM EDT shows post-tropical cyclone Hermine continuing to slowly move northwards towards southern New England, with the outer cloud bands making their way onshore. Hermine is expected to continually slowly move northeastward, with tropical storm warnings up for much of the southern New England coastline. Much of the eastern United States remains under high pressure and clear, although more thunderstorms are developing along the Gulf Coast. (Weather Underground via AP)

[Photo] Hurricanes have become less frequent recently

Nick Reimann
September 17, 2016
An Aedes aegypti mosquito in the lab at Pinellas County Mosquito Control in Clearwater, Fla., Aug. 23, 2016. The laboratory has been studying the Aedes Aegypti mosquito that can carry the virus from locally caught specimens. Photo credit: Jim Damaske/Associated Press

[Photo] 13 Zika cases confirmed in New Orleans

India Yarborough
August 30, 2016
Big Freedia holds the microphone out to the crowd during her performance on the Congo Square Stage during day 6 of Jazz Fest at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans, Saturday, April 30, 2016. (Sherri Miller/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

[Photo] Loyola welcomes Big Freedia to talk about fame, music and new book

Kristen Stewart, staff writer
May 5, 2016
Newly elected opposition congresswoman Marialbert Barrios holds up her credentials as lawmaker, from the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, after congressional elections. The Democratic Unity opposition coalition secured, by a single seat, a two-thirds supermajority, surpassing its even most-optimistic forecasts. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

[Photo] In My Opinion: Venezuela chooses democracy over socialist nightmare

Rebeca Trejo, [email protected]
December 17, 2015
FILE - This Nov. 5, 2005 file photo, shows the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. A federal judge ruled Monday, Oct. 26, 2015, that Ohio can shield the identity of people or entities involving in obtaining or using lethal injection drugs for executions, rejecting defense attorneys’ arguments that the information should be disclosed. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

[Photo] Death Penalty will be the focus of a lecture

Chasity Pugh
November 16, 2015
A woman lights a candle in memory of the plane crash victims at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St.Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. Mourners continued to come to St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport and Dvortsovaya Square on Tuesday to lay flowers and leave paper planes and soft toys at the arrivals hall. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

[Photo] Russian airliner crashes in Egypt, killing 224

Nicholas Morea
November 5, 2015
Families prepare to pick their pumpkins for the upcoming Halloween holiday. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

[Photo] The connection between Halloween and religion

Marie Simoneaux
October 30, 2015
President Barack Obama talks with Pope Francis during a state arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 23. The Pope will depart for Rome on Sept. 27. (Tony Gentile/Pool Photo via AP)

[Photo] Pope stirs excitement in the Capital, calls for climate action

September 25, 2015
A Pakistani child plays with a sheep bought to be sacrificed on the upcoming Muslims' festival Eid-al-Adha, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015 in Islamabad, Pakistan. Muslims all over the world celebrate the three-day festival Eid-al-Adha, by sacrificing sheep, goats, and cows to commemorate the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham to Christians and Jews) to sacrifice his son, Ismail, on God's command. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

[Photo] Eid Al Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice

Valeria Kawas
September 18, 2015
Musicians lead a procession during a wreath laying ceremony at the Hurricane Katrina Memorial on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015. Events were held citywide to commemorate Katrina. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

[Photo] The Lower Ninth Ward celebrates revival

Andrew Callaghan
September 4, 2015
Damaged buildings lean to their sides in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Nepal's capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley on Saturday, causing extensive damage with toppled walls and collapsed buildings. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

[Photo] Students recognized for leadership at Magis Awards

Lauren Saizan and Marie Simoneaux
May 1, 2015
Protesters

Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama, Mitch Landrieu

Gulf Oil Spill Photo Gallery

Warwick Sabin

Vatican Pope’s Portrait Artist

GOP 2016 CPAC Jindal

Supporters of corporal punishment march to the office of the Archdiocese on March 26. The archbishop has taken a stand against this practice.

Aymond objects to harsh discipline

AP
March 30, 2011

Oregon Jesuits settle lawsuit

AP
March 30, 2011
Emergency doctors carry a victim of a night club fire to a plane at an airport in Perm, about 700 miles (1,200 kilometers) east of Moscow, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. Many of the injured were sent for treatment to Moscow's top emergency hospitals. Authorities said more than 100 people died and 134 injured. The fire tore through the popular Lame Horse nightclub in Perm late Friday, after fireworks set a suspended plastic ceiling ablaze, filling the crowded club with thick black smoke.

Official: Russian nightclub fire toll reaches 117

AP
December 8, 2009
Traditional canning jars hold varieties of marijuana in a cabinet at the La Brea Collective medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Los Angeles County's district attorney says he intends to prosecute owners of marijuana dispensaries that take cash for pot.

LA council to revisit medical marijuana ordinance

AP
December 8, 2009
University of Mississippi Medical Center social worker Ruth Drake looks away as pediatric nurse Dennis Demesa inoculates her with the H1N1 vaccine, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 in Jackson, Miss. Mainly medical center staff that work with children were given the vaccine.

Swine flu deaths hit 35; more vaccine available

AP
November 17, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama, secon right, walks in with Chinese President Hu Jintao, third left, before their bilateral meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009.

Obama pushes human rights in meetings with Chinese

AP
November 17, 2009
FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1996 file photo, Texas A&M University students huddle in front of a bonfire, in College Station, Texas. The bonfire, which was under construction, collapsed Thursday, Nov. 18, 1999, killing 12.

Texas A&M remembering fatal ’99 bonfire collapse

AP
November 17, 2009
In this photo released by Rubenstein Communications, a 76 foot tall Norway spruce tree, which was chosen as the 2009 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, is lifted to a trailer in Easton, Conn. Wednesday Nov. 11, 2009.

Christmas tree going up in NY’s Rockefeller Center

AP
November 12, 2009

Loyola’s Trial Advocacy Team wins competition

AP
November 12, 2009

Official: Gunman holding NY principal hostage

AP
November 10, 2009
FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007 file photo, the sarcophagus of King Tut is placed back in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt and the California-based Getty Conservation Institute announced Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 a five year project to restore the Tomb of Tutankhamun, the boy king whose golden mask and artifacts have long awed the world.

King Tut’s tomb set for 5-year renovation project

AP
November 10, 2009
Members of the news media and others gather near a Tyson Foods, Inc., truck parked at Arkansas Foodbank Network in Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. Tyson Foods donated about 15 tons of food in honor of a volunteer of 25 years at an Arkadelphia, Ark., food bank.

Donated trucks to leave Wis. to help food drive

AP
November 3, 2009

Malaysian girl drowns, 2 others missing in river

AP
October 26, 2009

Harvard: Lab workers poisoned by tainted coffee

AP
October 24, 2009

Chesney, Swift to headline La. country music fest

AP
October 21, 2009
A customer takes a new Windows 7 software in a store in Rosenheim, southern Germany, on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Microsoft Corp. put a new edition of Windows on sale Thursday, hoping for a fresh start after a bad reception for the previous version of the software that runs most of the world's personal computers.

Microsoft hopes for a fresh start with Windows 7

AP
October 21, 2009
FILE -This 1998 file yearbook photo from Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. shows Dylan Klebold. The mother of the Columbine killer says she has been studying suicide in the decade since the high school massacre but had no idea her son was suicidal until she read his journals after his death. Susan Klebold's essay in next month's issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, is the most detailed response yet from any of the parents of Columbine killers Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris.

Police: NY teen planning school attack was bullied

AP
October 20, 2009
Rapper Lil Wayne enters Manhattan criminal court, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, in New York. A hearing on a DNA profiling technique used in the rapper's 2007 gun-possession case was due to start Wednesday.

Lil Wayne appears for DNA hearing in NYC gun case

AP
October 20, 2009
File - The BP (British Petroleum) logo is seen at a gas station in Washington, in this Oct. 25, 2007 file photo. Iraq's government Saturday Oct. 17, 2009 approved an oil deal with a consortium led by British giant BP PLC to develop a prized oil field in the south. BP and its partner China's CNPC were the only winners in Iraq's first international oil auction in over 30 years in June for development rights for the 17.8 billion-barrel Rumaila field.

Iraq approves oil deal with BP-led consortium

AP
October 16, 2009
FILE - In this April 27, 2006 file photo, a poster of President Barack Obama, right, by artist Shepard Fairey is shown for comparison with this file photo of then-Sen. Barack Obama by Associated Press photographer Manny Garcia at the National Press Club in Washington. Attorneys for poster artist Shepard Fairey, who designed the famous Obama "HOPE" image, say he based it on a photograph taken by The Associated Press and not another picture, as the artist had claimed.

Artist admits using other photo for ‘Hope’ poster

AP
October 16, 2009
**ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, OCT. 18** This Aug. 18, 2009 photo shows children accused of witchcraft waiting for food at the Children's Rights and Rehabilitation Network in Eket, Nigeria. The idea of witchcraft is hardly new, but it has taken on new life recently partly because of a rapid growth in evangelical Christianity. Campaigners against the practice say around 15,000 children have been accused in two of Nigeria's 36 states over the past decade and around 1,000 have been murdered.

Churches denounce African children as ‘witches’

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October 16, 2009

Neighbors thought dead man was Halloween display

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October 16, 2009
This image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Rick taken at 2 a.m. EDT Saturday October 17,2009. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says that Hurricane Rick has strengthened early Saturday off Mexico's Pacific coast into a major category 3 storm with dangerous winds nearing 115 mph (185)kph. At 5 a.m. EDT Saturday Rick was centered about 250 miles (400 Kilometers) southwest of Acapulco,Mexico and was moving west-northwest near 12mph(19 kph).

Dangeorus Hurricane Rick still growing off Mexico

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October 16, 2009
Tulane running back Andre Anderson celebrates toward the fans for their support after the Green Wave beat McNeese State 42-32 in an NCAA college football game at the Louisiana Superdome on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009 in New Orleans.

Tulane seeks to put pressure on Houston QB

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October 13, 2009

Va. man allowed to let dead rats rot on property

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October 13, 2009
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