The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office is mourning the loss of one of its own. 37-year-old Sergeant Grant Candies was killed early Sunday morning while deploying a spike strip on Interstate 10 – a 17-year-old driver hit him while swerving to avoid hitting the spike strip. Lieutenant Suzanne (soo-ZAHN) Carboni says Sergeant Candies was the 2023 deputy of the year at the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office for saving two lives, including one victim of a hit and run.
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Sergeant Candies also saved the life of a woman who had overdosed on opioids. Candies leaves behind a wife and two children.
Alexandria Senator Jay Luneau is filing legislation to crack down on people driving slow in the left-lane and causing a rolling roadblock. Luneau says the current law is hard to enforce…
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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today over the state’s congressional map. Plaintiffs are taking exception to the newly drawn sixth Congressional district, which stretches from Baton Rouge to Shreveport in order to satisfy a court order that a second Black district is needed in Louisiana. Plaintiffs’ attorney Edward Greim says the Constitution says you can’t draw up a district with race as the primary factor.
Solicitor General Ben Aguinaga (ah-gheen-YAH-gah) says the state was told by federal judges that it needed to establish a second majority Black district in the state and that it was following court orders in redrawing the map. The new map resulted in the sixth district changing hands from Republican to Democrat in the last election.