Attendees file out of St. Mark’s United Methodist Church after the UpStair Lounge fire 45th anniversary interfaith memorial service June 24. (Katie Gagliano/News21)Kelley Dixson sings a solo during the UpStairs Lounge 45th anniversary interfaith memorial service June 24. (Katie Gagliano/News21)Sally Buchman (center) marches in a second line parade honoring the 32 victims of the 1973 UpStairs Lounge arson attack. (Katie Gagliano/News21)Pink carnations cover a memorial plaque at the site of the UpStairs Lounge fire. (Katie Gagliano/News21)Skip Bailey and his mother, Marilyn LeBlanc-Downey, honor his uncle, Ferris Jerome LeBlanc, who was killed in the UpStairs Lounge fire. (Katie Gagliano/News21)
Sens. Gerald Long, R-Winnfield, left, and Francis Thompson, D-Delhi, testified in the House Education Committee on Thompson’s bill to rename the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts. (Photo by Katie Gagliano, Manship School News Service)
Operation Photo Rescue president Margie Hayes and East Baton Rouge Public Library archivist Melissa Eastin set a damaged photograph in place.Photographs with water damage await restoration at Goodwood Library Saturday.Operation Photo Rescue volunteer Robert McLaughlin, of Atlanta, lines up a photograph under his lens.
Former Indio City Council member Sam Torres chats with north Indio resident Lori Mullen about a potential design for the city’s new municipal voting districts June 21, 2017. (Photo: Katie Gagliano/The Desert Sun)
Louisiana state Sen. Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge, saw his bill eliminating the death penalty move out of committee Tuesday, April 25, 2017, to the full Senate for debate. (Photo by Katie Gagliano, Manship School News Service)
Louisiana Corrections Secretary Jimmy LeBlanc, had hoped to implement a medical furlough program for sick prisoners this year, but Congress’ intentions to roll back the Medicaid program could derail those efforts. (Photo by Katie Gagliano, Manship School News Service)
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