Louisiana has not performed an execution since 2010. A main reason is because drugs companies that can make the drugs to kill a person are reluctant to give states the chemicals needed to carry out an execution. Hammond Representative Nicky Muscarello is trying to change that by filing legislation that conceals the identities of companies that sell lethal injection drugs…
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Governor Edwards says he would sign the legislation if it reaches his desk.

Another bill waiting to be heard in the legislative session is a measure that would allow juniors and seniors at public high schools to take two college courses in high school for free….
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That’s Higher Ed Commissioner Kim Hunter Reed and it’s another bill that has the governor’s support.

Kathleen Blanco’s family wants the public to know the former governor is not as close to death as reports indicated last week when it was announced she was in hospice care. Advocate Reporter Tyler Bridges spoke with Blanco’s husband, Raymond Blanco, and he says his wife is still active despite her terminal cancer
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Bridges says the state’s only female governor can no longer walk, but is getting around with the help of an electric wheelchair.

For just the second time in the Louisiana National Guard’s history, an African american female has reached the rank the colonel. Alexandria native Kartina Lloyd has worked in several jobs including chief clinical nurse and deputy commander of clinical and administrative services.