Executive Director of the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission, Dr. Katara Williams says distracted driving is an epidemic in the Bayou State…:
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Authorities have fired a Mandeville Police Department cop who was allegedly driving her patrol car drunk. They say Becky White is accused of arriving to a Ponchatoula bar after hours intoxicated in her marked cop car on March 27th. There is no criminal investigation into the matter and further questions are being diverted to the Ponchatoula Police Department. White was Mandeville Police Department’s Special Olympics representative.

LSU Public Policy Rearcher Director Michael Henderson is surprised that the Latest Louisiana Survey showed three-fourths of Louisianans support the legal protection from discrimination at work based on sexual orientation, even across party lines…:
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He also says only 47-percent of residents support religious refusal of services to same sex couples.

Authorities are still not sure why a Vermillion Parish man set fire to a home killing an 89-year-old Ponchatoula woman who lived there. Tangipahoa Sheriff Daniel Edwards says they do know that 26-year-old Timothy Rouchon of Abbeville was acquainted with the victim, Dorothy Poche…:
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Rouchon faces charges including second degree murder and aggravated arson.