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• Report: Removed Confederate monuments found in maintenance yard

  May 17, 2017 4:30 PM

  NEW ORLEANS – Two Confederate monuments removed from their locations in New Orleans were discovered in a maintenance yard next to piles of trash Wednesday afternoon, WWL-TV reports . Tweeted photos from WWL-TV reporter Lauren Bale, showed the concrete base of the Jefferson Davis monument as well as the... more »

• Pro-monument group plans midnight vigil at Jefferson Davis statue

  April 23, 2017 9:35 PM

  NEW ORLEANS - A group that sued the city of New Orleans over the removal of its Confederate monuments plans to hold a vigil Monday morning as City Hall continues with plans to remove them. According to a report from WWL-TV , he Monumental Task Committee said the vigil... more »

• Professor argues Andrew Jackson statue should be removed from Jackson Square

  March 31, 2016 8:37 PM

  NEW ORLEANS - A Tulane University professor told the New Orleans Governmental Affairs Committee he believes the statue of Andrew Jackson in Jackson Square should be added to the list of monuments up for removal, WWL-TV reports . "Well he owned more than 300 slaves in his life," Dr. Richard... more »

• Statue of 'Pistol Pete' clears another hurdle

  February 8, 2016 10:00 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The LSU Athletic Hall-of-Fame gave its approval on building a Pete Maravich statue to honor the hoops legend. Two weeks ago, the LSU revised its policies so a monument to "The Pistol" could be built. Otherwise, Maravich would have been inelgible since he didn't accrue enough... more »

• Federal judge refuses to stop monument removal

  January 26, 2016 4:39 PM

  NEW ORLEANS - A federal judge declined to issue an injunction Tuesday which would have stopped work to remove several New Orleans monuments to Confederate figures. WWL-TV says U. S. District Judge Carl Barbier refused to halt work to remove statues of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, P. G.... more »