The House Criminal Justice Committee votes to advance a bill that would repeal the state statute that allows for financially compensating people who served time in prison for crimes that they did not commit. Attorney General Liz Murrill testified in support of the bill, saying that the burden to compensate wrongfully-convicted people should be at the local level and not the state level.

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This fall, LSU opens a new instructional site in Baton Rouge for its top-ranked Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. School of Nursing Associate Dean Jennifer Manning says the addition of the Baton Rouge campus will keep more students in Louisiana instead of applying to other SEC schools in other states.

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Pope Francis will be laid to rest tomorrow. Colleen Crain reports.

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An improperly installed child safety seat is being blamed for the death of a two-year-old Slidell boy. Preston Odone was killed when the pickup truck he was riding in veered off the roadway along eastbound I-12 in Covington. State Police say while Preston was in a car seat, he was not properly restrained.