National Guard troops deployed to New Orleans this year to assist with the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras after the Jan. 1 terror attack on Bourbon Street. Photo: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images
🚔 Gov. Jeff Landry now expects President Trump's approval on his request for Louisiana National Guard troops to back up local law enforcement within the next two weeks. The soldiers would stick around through Mardi Gras, Landry says. (Fox 8)
🦁 The Audubon Nature Institute is hitting pause on its membership sales after public complaints to its recent price increase. (Instagram)
💍 Missing: Wedding dress. An Army officer is trying to track down her gown after the bag she carried it in went missing at the New Orleans airport. (The Times-Picayune 🔒)
🪩 A daddy-daughter dance at Angola went viral after event videos posted online. The dance may become a new prison tradition, an assistant warden says. (AP)
👑 Glass Half-Full co-founder Franziska Trautmann will serve as Krewe du Vieux's 2026 queen, we're told. The parade rolls Jan. 31. About Glass Half-Full.
