We examined almost 10,000 pages of LaToya Cantrell recall signatures. Here’s what we found.

By DREW BROACH | Deputy metro editor​ ​ ​

RECALL REVELATIONS -- An exhaustive review of thousands of petitions provided to The Times-Picayune by the organizers of the LaToya Cantrell recall campaign shows they contain 32,228 signatures, far short of the threshold to put the question of ousting the New Orleans mayor on the ballot. It also shows, despite organizers’ denial of racial politics in their drive to recall the Black mayor, that those who signed the almost 10,000 pages provided by the campaign are overwhelmingly White and mostly clustered in just a few wealthy neighborhoods.

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SO LONG -- Some welcome news from the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center: The La Niña weather pattern, which lasted three years and produced conditions favorable to the formation of hurricanes, has finally come to an end.

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COLD CASE -- More than 30 years after a newborn girl was smothered and her body dumped in a garbage bag in Picayune, Mississippi, a man and woman from Jefferson Parish have been arrested in connection with the baby’s death.

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