Congressman Troy Carter supports the LSU Lady Tigers are the indisputable winners of the championship and Iowa should not have to accompany them on their visit. First Lady Jill Biden stated she would tell President Biden to invite the Iowa women’s team because they played a good game. Carter says her remark was an unintentional slight to the ladies of LSU.
Biden later retracted her statement but President Biden said in a tweet that he looks forward to seeing LSU and UCONN men’s basketball champion at the White House.
A bill that would allow public schools to have armed protection officers on site has been filed by an Ascension lawmaker. The bill is in response to the number of mass shootings nationwide. Gonzales Senator Eddie Lambert says this is not a mandate.
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Lambert’s bill will come up when the legislature convenes next week. He says he sees no good reason to oppose it.
Legislation that would require high school students to receive instruction on the importance of organ donation and how to become an organ donor has been authored by Representative Barry Ivey. Ivey says a constituent requested he file the bill after he lost his daughter in a fatal car crash in 2021.
Students would get at least 30 minutes of classroom instruction.
Boyce police arrested two caregivers in the death of an elderly woman who died under their care. 66-year-old James McCoy and 56-year-old Kevin Glynn, 56, were the primary caregivers of their mother, 88-year-old Ethel Glynn who died on March 21. Assistant Chief of Police, Linwood Banks says his office was contacted to investigate Glynn’s death.
Glynn’s cause of death was heart failure but physical evidence deemed severe neglect.