By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
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Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans Pregnancy Services in Metairie is one of 12 crisis pregnancy centers in Louisiana that received public taxpayer funding from 2024-25 and offers ultrasounds without being licensed by the state health department. (Greg LaRose/LAI)
By Sofia Resnick
State auditors trying to learn how a dozen crisis pregnancy centers in Louisiana had spent nearly $1.2 million ultimately could not figure it out. Despite a new law, the state had failed to establish a process for the centers or to track how they spent public dollars. That was surprising enough, auditors said. But then they learned something else: Every center they reviewed offered ultrasounds and other medical services. Yet none was licensed as a healthcare facility.
Steam rises from the cooling tower at Entergy’s Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, located just south of Vicksburg, Mississippi. (Photo courtesy of Entergy Corp.)
By Wes Muller
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Louisiana and four other states as potential sites for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses. Each would handle the enrichment of radioactive materials, deployment of reactors and the recycling or disposal of nuclear waste. The program is part of an effort by the Trump administration to spur investment in atomic energy, a sector that has long been saddled with high costs and lengthy build times for reactors.
Nolan Xavier Wells, center, with his parents, Christine Wells-Wonsley and Elmore Wonsley, who commissioned an independent investigation with the help of civil rights attorney Ben Crump after Nolan’s death in early July during a boat trip to Horn Island, Mississippi, with a group of white friends. (Photo courtesy of Ben Crump Law)
By Amanda Watford
For families who question an official determination about how a loved one died — whether from suicide, an accident, natural causes, during an encounter with law enforcement or while incarcerated or detained — the next step is often unclear. Independent autopsies have become a familiar part of some of the nation’s highest-profile death investigations, most recently with the death of 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells in Mississippi.
By Diego Perdomo, Verite News
With the heat index expected to reach as high as 115 degrees this week, full shelters and worsening climate conditions, New Orleans’ homeless population is bracing for the additional stress brought on by rising temperatures.
By Ariana Figueroa
The Trump administration has for more than a year used personal information airline passengers provide to the Transportation Security Administration for immigration enforcement, according to documents obtained by a government watchdog group. The documents show for the first time a formal data-sharing agreement since May 2025 between TSA and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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