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After his Los Angeles pizza shop was crippled for two months by the coronavirus pandemic, Bobby Alt reopened Saturday excited to finally dish out slices to customers in person. By the time he closed for the night, he feared the worst for his little business. A largely peaceful protest earlier in the day, which had delivered a steady flow of hungry customers, had given way to unruly groups of vandals tagging and breaking into businesses in the upscale Beverly Grove neighborhood. Alt watched it unfold with a sense of dread, closed up D’Amore’s Pizza and left. When he returned the...

<p>Most officials from both political parties in Rapides Parish agree on one thing about Senate Republican leader Trent Lott's comments at Sen. Strom Thurmond's birthday party - the senator stirred up a lot of trouble for himself and his party.</p>

Democratic Party still dominant among Cenla voters Less than 20 percent of area voters are Republicans Andrew Griffin / Staff Reporter Posted on September 29, 2002 Despite all the inroads made by Republicans in Louisiana over the past two decades, Cenla remains a bastion of Democratic voters. That doesn't mean that those Democrats always support their party's candidate. In fact, it's not unusual for most Cenla parishes to vote Republican in presidential or gubernatorial races. But when it comes to voter registration, the Democratic Party is the party of choice for the vast majority of voters in this area. Despite...