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wwltv.com — WWLTV.com Email:webteam@wwltv.com | Twitter: @WWLTV NEW ORLEANS, La. - In light of the disaster in Oklahoma, the Louisiana Task Force is on standby to find out if members will deployed to help find missing victims. The K-9 section of the urban search and rescue team may be sent to the devastation, according to the LTF leader.

wwltv.com — Brett Martel / The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS -- Even as Sean Payton tried to make the best of his one-season bounty banishment from the NFL by spending time with his children, getting in shape and playing golf, he often compared his punishment to prison time.

wwltv.com — David Hammer / Eyewitness News Email:dhammer@wwltv.com | Twitter: @davidhammerWWL Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell is using illegal, contingency-fee contracts to hire his top supporters to represent the state in its biggest tort cases, lawsuit watchdogs allege. And even when Caldwell hires outside lawyers on an hourly basis, there are questions about whether the state is getting its money's worth.