The race for Orleans Parish Sheriff: who's in it and what's at stake
 

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If there?s any seat that should be ripe for the picking in the Feb. 1 municipal election, it?s that of Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman. Last year, a 30-minute jailhouse video (made in 2009) went viral with its images of prisoners waving firearms, drinking beer, showing off pills, snorting white powder (from the cover of a Bible workbook) and roaming Bourbon Street.? [ Read more ]

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