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North Carolina state Sen. Jeff Jackson (D) is reportedly set to exit the race for U.S. Senate.

Local law-enforcement officials addressed concerns about a recent string of violent crime during a community meeting in Thibodaux.  In the latest incident, a teenager was shot to death at a party last week in Houma in connection with what investigators believe is an ongoing feud between “groups of people from the Thibodaux area and groups of people from the Houma area.”  Wednesdays gathering at the St. Luke Community Center was organized by Thibodaux City Councilwoman Constance Johnson...

Curator: people may find their history in slave ship exhibit May 2, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail HOUMA, La. (AP) — A Black history museum in Louisiana has a new exhibit about one of the last slave ships — one which brought 400 Africans illegally to the United States and sold some of them in south Louisiana. Margie Scoby, president and curator of the Finding Our Roots African American Museum in Houma, says the exhibit may help visitors learn about their own histories. Some of the people carried...

April 21, 2021 Constance Johnson, a school counselor at William B. Wade Elementary School, was recently named the Elementary School Counselor of the Year by the Maryland School Counselor Association. When Johnson started with Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) in 2014, she split her time between Wade and C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School before beginning at Wade fulltime at the start of the 2015-16 school year. At Wade she is the counselor for kindergarten, third, fourth and fifth grades. De...

Nonprofit Spotlight: Thibodauxs Circle of H.O.P.E. Thibodaux faith-based charity Circle of H.O.P.E. has a simple but far-reaching mission: To provide resources for children and adults that promote the development of the skills necessary to become productive citizens. Located at 722 St. Charles St., the groups programs include educational assistance and outreach services, annual community luncheons, Christmas quilts for the elderly, a Thanksgiving feeding for the community, a breast cancer a...

Government Executive Get the latest workforce news delivered to your inbox. email Department still has a long way to go to meet its vaccination goals. Senior Correspondent The Homeland Security Department said it has significantly ramped up its workforce vaccination efforts, announcing this week it has helped 58,000 employees receive inoculations.  The initiative, which DHS has dubbed Operation Vaccinate Our Workforce (VOW), is moving faster after getting off to a slow start. Th...

Victor "Vic" Johnson Jr., a social activist and former teacher, school administrator and member of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education, died Wednesday night of COVID-19 at Forsyth Medical Center. He was 85. Constance Johnson, Vics wife, said Thursday that she, her husband and their daughter, LaTanya "Kim" Johnson, were recently infected with the coronavirus, and they were treated at the hospital. Constance Johnson said she and her daughter have recovered from the virus....

Calvin Cooks Sr., the first-ever Black person elected Thibodaux city marshal, was sworn in Tuesday in the presence of public officials, campaigners, family and friends. The city marshal serves a six-year term. Judge Mark Chiasson led the swearing in at Thibodaux City Court for Cooks with his wife LaShana by his side. “(Thibodaux voters) don’t look at skin color,” said Lafourche Parish Council member Jerry Jones, “they look at who can do the job.” Cooks comes to the job from a backgro...

>> jon: welcome to the "daily show." my name is jon stewart. my guest tonight, young ricky gervais. ( cheers and applause ) so, we can all start taking bets now on what animal hes going to mime having sex with. ( laughter ). marsupial. all right. ( laughter ). so, listen, folks, its over. rick santorum, religious conservative, the pennsylvania prude sweater vest johnson, the keystone ( bleep ), ended his campaign for the republican presidential nomination in a heartfelt concession spee...

gervais. ( cheers and applause ) so, we can all start taking bets now on what animal hes going to mime having sex with. ( laughter ). marsupial. all right. ( laughter ). so, listen, folks, its over. rick santorum, religious conservative, the pennsylvania prude sweater vest johnson, the keystone ( bleep ), ended his campaign for the republican presidential nomination in a heartfelt concession speech yesterday afternoon. >> over and over again we were told, "forget it, you cant win." we ...