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New Orleans: Coronavirus nixes Mardi Gras-season parades

by JANET McCONNAUGHEY and KEVIN McGILL
| November 17, 2020 3:37 PM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The raucous Mardi Gras parades where riders on elaborate floats toss trinkets to adoring throngs have been canceled in New Orleans because the close-packed crowds could spread the novel coronavirus.

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