A legislative effort to allow all registered voters in the state to vote by mail fails to get out of a House Committee. Matt Doyle has more.
Two State Police Troopers are injured after being dispatched to assist Hammond Police with a pursuit around 2:15 this morning. A tire deflation device was deployed, disabling the suspect’s vehicle, and upon the troopers retrieval of the device, they were struck by a Hammond Police unit involved in the pursuit. One trooper has been treated and released, the other is in critical condition.
More workers are returning to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to continue building rockets for the Artemis Program, which aims to put the first woman on the moon by 2024. Michoud Director Robert Champion says they’ll still be under 25 percent of their full production capacity as they enter NASA’s Stage 3 Return to On-site Work.
Stage 3 of NASA’s plan roughly coincides with the federal government’s Phase One.
Senator Bill Cassidy has introduced bipartisan legislation that would deliver $500 billion in emergency funding to states and communities through what’s called the State and Municipality Assistance for Recovery and Transition (SMART) Act. Cassidy says a state’s share of funding would be based on three factors.