Sean Gardner / For The Times
Louisiana State Penitentiary hosts a popular, long-running rodeo. It raises significant funding and offers hope to the convicts, many of them serving life sentences.
Column: The county's public service ads on portion size offer good advice, but trying to get people to eat smarter on a grand scale is a tough task because we're a bunch of hopeless dummies when it comes to diet.
Kinde Durkee stole $7 million from up to 50 political clients and pleaded guilty in March to five counts of mail fraud. Eight years "is a just and appropriate sentence," says a court filing by Durkee's attorney.
As the GOP uses the lame-duck session to offer small changes to immigration laws, a bipartisan group in the House is preparing to reconvene to take up larger reforms.
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