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North Louisiana housing agency to get 44 emergency vouchers June 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) A housing agency in north Louisiana is getting emergency vouchers to help the homeless and other vulnerable groups find affordable places to live. The Housing Authority for the City of Shreveport is getting a $262,344 allocation from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to cover 44 emergency housing vouchers, The Shreveport Times reported. The money is part of the American Rescue Plan which President Joe Biden signed in March. The vouchers are specifically for those who fall into four categories: homeless, at risk of homelessness, recently homeless, and those fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking. ....
Louisiana coroner: autopsy found no trauma in inmate death April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) Authorities say an autopsy did not find any evidence of trauma in the death of a 31-year-old Louisiana jail inmate. Casey Louis Simpson died March 16, he Caddo Parish Coroner’s Office said. He had been found unresponsive in his cell at the Caddo Correctional Center, news agencies reported. Preliminary autopsy results are consistent with natural causes with no evidence of trauma,” the coroner’s office said in a news release Wednesday. The statement said final results, including toxicology, will be available in two to three weeks. ....