A new report from Pew Charitable Trusts shows that only 12-percent of Louisiana legislators in 2015 were women, the lowest percentage in the nation. Eric Gill reports…:
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The US Justice Department announces they will not seek federal criminal civil rights charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Victor White, who died from a gunshot wound sustained while in the back of an Iberia Parish Sheriff’s deputy patrol vehicle. White’s family has questioned how the 22-year-old man shot himself in March of 2014, while handcuffed in the back of the police car. The Iberia Parish Coroner ruled the death a suicide.

Only 6 percent of LSU’s graduates donate money to the university, and LSU Foundation President Stephen Moret says that’s last in the SEC. The average is 16%. Moret says LSU students aren’t being told about giving back to their alma mater and why it matters, which is what needs to change…:
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He also says LSU’s endowment per student is tied for last the conference at $420 million.

An attorney for Rachel Respess, one of the Destrehan high school teachers accused of having sex with a student last year says he thinks the Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s office will make a decision on charges by early February. Respess is accused, along with fellow teacher Shelley Dufresne, of engaging in sex acts with a 16-year-old male student at Respess’ apartment in Kenner.