Louisiana Tech is officially a member of the Sun Belt Conference…
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Also on this day, UNO officially becomes LSU New Orleans as the school moves from the U-L System to the LSU System. UNO interim chancellor Jeanette Weiland says she’s ready to get the word out about LSU New Orleans as part of an effort to boost enrollment…
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A West Monroe man who spent 27 years on death row for the death of his ex-girlfriend’s 23-month old daughter is a free man after the Louisiana Supreme Court agreed with a lower court decision that prosecutors used flawed evidence to convict Jimmie Duncan in 1998. When Duncan was convicted, prosecutors convinced a jury that Duncan sexually assaulted Haley Oliveaux before she died in a bath tub. But newer evidence suggests Haley likely died from a seizure while in the tub.
The Ouachita District Attorney’s Office could try to prosecute Haley Duncan, but one of his attorneys, Ann Ferebee, says it will be up to the prosecution to decide how to proceed…
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Ferebee says if prosecutors seek to try him for negligent homicide, they’d be wasting their time, since Duncan has already served three times the maximum prison sentence for that charge.