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Yahoo
25-02-2025
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St. John the Baptist Parish deputies warn of tax collection phone scam
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. (WGNO) — Deputies with the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office are warning residents of a new phone scam. According to the sheriff's office, residents have reported receiving phone calls from people claiming to be from the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office requesting tax payments. Wrestlemania to return to New Orleans for third time Deputies said the scam involves asking residents to make tax payments over the phone. SJSO officials said the caller 'identified their company as DTAM Services, LLC.' 'A Freedom Fighter': The life and legacy of Oretha Castle Haley Deputies said the sheriff's office will never ask for money through a phone call and residents should not comply with the caller's request if they receive one of these calls. Those who receive scam calls like these can report them to the SJSO at of Paris Road closed in Chalmette due to fire Bonnabel's basketball roster features one of the top talents in the state Trump administration works to end war in Ukraine Trending warmer & drier. Keeping an eye on the storm potential by Lundi Gras-Fat Tuesday. Maryland man arrested for cyberstalking nun in St. Landry Parish Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Politics
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The life and legacy of Oretha Castle Haley
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — No one played a larger role in the New Orleans civil rights story than that of Oretha Castle Haley. Starting as a teenager, her leadership led us through the pivotal years of the movement. WGNO spoke with her grandson Blair Dottin-Haley about her work and her legacy. New Orleans fine art gallery designed for Black people to 'see themselves' According to Dottin-Haley, 'Oretha Castle Haley was a freedom fighter, organizer, a civil rights leader. Those who followed her called her the general in the civil rights movement. She joined the Dryades Street boycotts at a very young age while she was a student at Southern University at New Orleans and very soon, I think she realized but more importantly those around her realized that they needed to follow her lead.' Our conversation took place at the Ashe Cultural Arts Center on the same Dryades St., now named in her honor. Fellow Civil Rights legend Jerome Smith spoke to Haley's leadership as well. 'Oretha and I were classmates at Clark School. We all come from Clark. You have to deal with that in terms of the spiritual essence of a person. And being female, she could confront a situation with a determination and a sophistication that has yet to have been duplicated.' Haley's involvement in the local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality or C.O.R.E. led to direct street-level activism, playing a major role in the movement in our city. Dottin Haley says this work continued later in her life. 'In the post civil rights era when I got to spend some time with her, she was running the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation, she was minority recruiter for LSU, and she was running the campaigns of the first Black woman to be elected at large on the city council Dorothy Mae Taylor and the first Black woman on the school board, Gail Glapion.' Lost recording of MLK speech resurfaces decades later Dottin Haley was only nine when his grandmother died of cancer at only 48 years of age. She lived a full life of achievement, but also full of moving New Orleans forward. According to Smith, the disease deprived her of a promising future and our city of a true leader. 'I don't like to discuss it because I don't know how to express the loss. Because her definition of school was about liberation and betterment of person, and non-surrender,' said defends Musk's 'genius' email to federal workers 'A Freedom Fighter' | The life and legacy of Oretha Castle Haley Judge blocks immigration raids at religious groups suing Trump administration 'Not on my watch': Pro athletes toss support behind Hooters amid bankruptcy speculation New parade forecasts after weather delays Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
