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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – An oil spill of roughly 5,300 gallons on the Louisiana coast was contained near the Bay Long region over Labor Day weekend.

A Mississippi man who originally suffered injuries in a deadly bus caused by illegal immigrant workers has now become the third fatality of the incident.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – “No show Hillary Clinton, that’s what we call her around here. She didn’t even call it in,” said U.S. Senate candidate Rob Maness, discussing the recent flood response in Louisiana in America’s south-east. The “storm with

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – In the wake of historic flooding throughout the southeastern Louisiana, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is now being criticized for moving too slow in aiding victims with temporary housing.

Of the 111 drug offenders President Obama recently commuted sentences for; two are from the New Orleans area with one being a notorious ringleader for the city’s cocaine trade.

A manhunt is currently underway in Louisiana as law enforcement officials search for three male inmates who escaped from a detention center in the state.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — President Obama made no official statement on the 11th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the largest natural disaster in U.S. history which claimed the lives of more than 1,800 people.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – As Louisiana flood victims begin to pick up the scraps of what is left of their homes and communities in the wake of unprecedented flooding, federal agencies are already warning residents to be cautious of fraudulent services and other scams.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Tropical Depression Nine, which is struggling to enter the Gulf of Mexico, is not expected to hit Louisiana, which is continuing to recover from recent floods and will instead impact Florida later this week.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Over the last two months, the Baton Rouge Police Department (BRPD) has taken on unparalleled controversies and crises following the divisive Alton Sterling case.

LAPLACE, Louisiana – A bus driven by an illegal immigrant full of foreign workers headed to aid the Baton Rouge, Louisiana flood victims crashed in a horrific accident that killed at least two people and left 41 injured.

Despite historic flooding across the southeast region of Louisiana, relief volunteers and organizations still say that donations have not matched the needs of those affected.

The editorial board of Louisiana news outlet The Advocate is blasting Hillary Clinton for her refusal to come visit their state as it “rebound[s] from what’s been described as the worst American natural disaster since Superstorm Sandy.”

HAMMOND, Louisiana – A Louisiana resident’s response to President Obama’s nondiscrimination memo to flood victims in the region, where he lectured to victims on the issue of racism, is now going viral.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Louisiana’s high-volume agriculture industry is among the devastated after the southeast region of the state was soaked by overwhelming floodwaters.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – The State of Louisiana is not even two weeks out of a flooding crisis that killed 13 people and destroyed 60,000 homes and officials are already eyeing a potential tropical storm that could double the damage done.

TEL AVIV – Israeli NGO IsraAid is sending a humanitarian delegation to Louisiana to assist flood victims in salvaging their property, return to their homes, and begin the process of rehabilitation.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Former Bill Clinton advisor and Democratic consultant James Carville heaped praise on GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump for visiting flood victims in his home-state of Louisiana last week.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – After The Washington Post attempted to discredit GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s donations to Louisiana flood victims on his trip to flood-ravaged region, the campaign is now debunking the claims in an exclusive statement to Breitbart Texas.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – A local beloved rescue crew dubbed the “Cajun Navy” made up of citizen heroes who saved hundreds of residents during Louisiana’s unprecedented flooding disaster could soon find that in order to rescue neighbors, they will need a permit.

Florida officials announced Tuesday that a case of locally-acquired Zika infection has been confirmed in the Tampa Bay Area, as medical officials document 42 such cases in the Miami-Dade area, nearly 300 miles away.

Breitbart News is in contact with a self-described “lifelong resident of Zachary, a Baton Rouge suburb, and a black man” who’s laid out the truth about economic conditions that Louisiana residents are facing.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – After GOP nominee Donald Trump was the only high-profile figure to visit Louisiana flood victims immediately following unprecedented flooding, the American Red Cross is admitting that getting donations has been tougher than usual.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – After taking heat for not visiting Louisiana flood victims earlier, President Obama immediately began defending himself once off Air Force One.

Donald Trump said the visit is “too little, too late” and Obama “should have gone to Louisiana days ago, instead of golfing.”

While the recent floods have brought death and devastation to my beloved home state of Louisiana, predictably the Democrat powers that be are playing politics.

President Barack Obama’s media strategy is strikingly different than the one employed by Donald Trump, who closed his visit to the press.

ST. AMANT, Louisiana — GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump sent a message to Louisiana flood victims in the area who were devastated by flooding as late as Sunday.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Louisiana native and pop music icon Britney Spears is donating to flood victims who have been ravaged by storms by auctioning off a chance to meet her in exchange for relief money.

Three women were arrested in Baton Rouge and charged with looting homes abandoned during the historic and disastrous flooding in South Louisiana, reports say.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – The Los Angeles Times immediately is politicizing natural disaster relief for the thousands of flooding victims by attacking Republican lawmakers who represent the state.

In 2005, erstwhile talented rapper Kanye West made the following claim at the end of an otherwise incoherent rant during a live fundraiser for the victims of Hurricane Katrina: “George Bush doesn’t care about black people”. Fast forward 11 years,

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — In a radio ad to African American voters in 2007, then-Senator Hillary Clinton called President George W. Bush “invisible” in his response to Hurricane Katrina.

American public health experts are warning that the Zika epidemic first identified in Latin America in February and now affecting Florida may expand throughout the Gulf states and pose a challenge to health officials for at least the next year.

Retired Air Force Col. Rob Maness, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana, called on President Obama to apologize to residents of Louisiana for a 16-page “guidance” sent out last week by his Department of Justice that cautioned Louisianans not to be racist in hiring people to help them clean up after the recent floods that killed 13 and forced more than 30,000 to abandon their homes.

Actress Kirstie Alley lambasted President Obama on Friday for golfing during his annual vacation in Martha’s Vineyard this week while thousands of displaced Louisiana residents continued to languish from the devastation wrought by deadly flooding that has rocked the state.