Local lawmakers are calling for St. Tammany coroner-elect Dr. Christopher Tape not to take office, after a WWL-TV investigation found Tape was arrested on child sexual assault charges in New Mexico in 2001. The charges were dropped because he didn’t receive a speedy trial but Franklinton Senator Beth Mizell says Tape was never proven innocent either…
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Tape told WWL-TV his experience of being accused of child sexual assault makes him a good person to lead the sexual assault response team.

A special session on crime begins next week and Hammond Representative Nicholas Muscarello has filed a bill that could result in Louisiana executing death row inmates again. Obtaining the drugs to carry out a lethal injection has been a problem, because the makers of those drugs do not want to be publicly identified. Muscarello says his House Bill Six addresses that…
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A teacher workgroup launched by Louisiana Department of Education aims to improve conditions for teachers. Teiko Foxx has more…
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