The Pastor Protection Act, which would allow clergy members to refuse to marry a same sex couple, failed to get enough votes to pass the Senate Judiciary Committee. Halen Doughty has more…:
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We’ll find out today if New Orleans will host a Super Bowl in 2019. A vote by the league’s owners, who are meeting in Charlotte, is expected after the various cities make their pitches. Atlanta, Tampa Bay and Miami are New Orleans’ main competition for Super Bowl 53.

The sanctuary cities legislation, which would have punished cities for not adopting federal immigration laws, did not get out of a Senate committee today. Supporters this law would help keep cities safe from illegal immigrants. A fired up Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand says he’s offended by this bill…:
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He says the push is not necessary.

A head-on crash in East Feliciana Parish claimed the lives of 2 Mississippi men who were not buckled up. State Police say around midnight 39-year-old Julius Packnett was traveling south on LA 19 when, for unknown reasons, crossed the center line and collided into 39-year-old Adam McKey’s vehicle. Both drivers were not restrained and they both sustained fatal injuries.