To convince the legislature to pass a bill that requires unanimous jury verdicts was considered a long shot in March. Now as Jim Shannon reports the measure is one vote away from becoming law.
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The Senate approved a 28-billion dollar spending plan for next fiscal year that Governor John Bel Edwards has no plans of endorsing, because it reduces money for public colleges, eliminates the food stamp program, allocates fewer dollars for child welfare and TOPS.

The Louisiana Department of Corrections has shut down Camp J at Angola. That’s where the state used to house inmates in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. D-O-C Secretary James LeBlanc says Camp J’s infrastructure was crumbling, so the prisoners had to be moved…
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Another record high was set in New Orleans today as the temperature hit 93-degrees at Louis Armstrong International Airport, breaking the previous record set in 1995. National Weather Service forecaster Michael Hill…
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There is a marginal risk for severe weather tomorrow afternoon and night for northwest Louisiana.