It’s the worst mass murder in the U.S. in more than two years. Eight children were shot to death in Shreveport early yesterday morning – seven were siblings, and an eighth was a cousin. Shreveport Police Corporal Christopher Bordelon says 31-year-old Shemar Elkins first went into a home on Harrison Street and shot his wife inside. 

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Then Elkins went into a home on West 79th Street a short distance away and shot another woman before shooting all eight children execution-style. Shreveport Police later shot Elkins dead following a chase that ended in Bossier City.

Caddo Parish Commissioner Ronald Cothran told a news conference yesterday that this tragedy is further proof that domestic violence remains a major problem across the country, and something needs to be done to break the cycle.

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The state legislature is working to create a pilot program, so veterans and others dealing with PTSD, chronic depression or substance abuse can take advantage of psychedelic-assisted therapy. Jeff Palermo has the story.

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On the heels of the success of the Artemis Two mission will come an Artemis Three mission next year – and once again, New Orleans will have something to do with it. Today, NASA rolls out the largest section of the rocket that will launch the mission’s astronauts to the moon – and, once again, that rocket is being built at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.