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New Ideal Market excites, caters to Ascension Parish Hispanic community
GONZALES, La. (BRPROUD) — Ideal Market has opened its biggest store in Gonzales, offering the community with a place to purchase all types of Hispanic products and food. Maria Medrano, who lives in Donaldsonville, is from Zacatecas, Mexico. Once a week, Medrano commutes one hour to Ideal Market in Baton Rouge for her food necessities, she said.
Discovery of missing WWII plane brings closure to Napoleonville family
Less than two weeks after D-Day in 1944, two American B-24 bombers crashed into each other over the Baltic Sea. Now, divers believe they've found the wreckage of one of those planes, 80 years after the crash. A family from Napoleonville, Louisiana, and WGNO's Susan Roesgen, have ties to that missing plane.
Louisiana needs to do more to stop mercury emissions from a chemical plant, feds say
Ten years ago, the then-owners of a bauxite refinery near Gramercy told the state that their operation had been unwittingly emitting the toxic heavy metal mercury into the air — potentially for decades — without state authorization or company officials knowing. After the disclosure, the operation then known...
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