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Sam Karlin
@samkarlin
investigative reporter for @NOLAnews | Tips: [email protected]. Signal: samkarlin.94 Kansas City enjoyer.
New Orleans, LA
Joined December 2010
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    Me: ah what a busy day. Now to run home and write my story. Ollie:
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    Here's the account from a New Orleans doctor, who was told by her hospital's lawyer she couldn't perform a D&E on a 16-weeks-pregnant woman whose water broke. Instead, she went through a "painful, hours-long labor to deliver a nonviable fetus, despite her wishes"
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    Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, upon winning reelection: "As for the president, God bless his heart." #lagov
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    Replying to @samkarlin
    "She was screaming--not from pain, but from the emotional trauma she was experiencing," the doctor wrote. After delivering the fetus, she hemorrhaged and lost close to a liter of blood. "There is absolutely no medical basis...to experience anything like this"
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    Replying to @samkarlin
    This was filed in court as part of the legal challenge to Louisiana's trigger ban on abortion. More:
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    Eddie Rispone has conceded the #lagov race to Gov. John Bel Edwards, giving the Democrat four more years in ruby red Louisiana despite Trump’s best efforts to flip the seat. Edwards camp says Rispone called minutes ago to concede. #lagov #lalege
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    Seriously a worrying sign ahead of #Ida. The Waffle House in Morgan City is closed until the storm passes.
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    just saw a restaurant in New Orleans advertising a $28 poboy. what's happening man
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    News: Louisiana House Democrats have lost another member to a party switch. State Rep. Jeremy Lacombe has switched to the GOP. It comes after state Rep. Francis Thompson gave the House GOP a supermajority by switching parties. Developing story: #lalege
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    Huge news: Everyone with a Louisiana driver's license has likely had their personal information--including social security numbers--exposed to cyber attackers. The state says to take these steps:
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    WAFB, take a bow. A public records request for Connie Bernard's internet search history shows she was lying when she insisted she wasn't online shopping during an emotional board meeting about renaming Lee High School.
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    Asked if Letlow had any underlying conditions that would have made his death more likely, Dr. GE Ghali at LSU-Shreveport said "None. All covid related."
    News: Luke Letlow, Louisiana's 40-year-old congressman elect, has died from COVID-19, a spokesman confirms. #lalege #lagov
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    The Louisiana House has voted 62-20 to remove "Robert E. Lee Day" and "Confederate Memorial Day," among others, from the list of state holidays. Will post the vote momentarily #lalege #lagov
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    Louisiana has started running PSAs with LSU head football coach Ed Orgeron about coronavirus, @LouisianaGov says. #lalege #lagov