Authorities are investigating the mysterious death of a Wisconsin tourist. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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A 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl are dead in what New Orleans Police are calling a murder-suicide. Witnesses say the man was pacing the girl’s neighborhood for an hour this morning; and when the girl stepped outside to go to her bus stop, the man shot her several times before turning the gun on himself. The relationship between the two is unclear at this time.
With the legislature debating whether to push the closed primaries back a month with a Supreme Court decision looming, Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser says he’d like to go back to open primaries. Nungesser says open primaries yield a more representative government, while closed primaries usually leave general election voters a choice between two extremists.
The group Agenda for Children says the poverty rate among children in Louisiana is the highest in the country at 19-percent – far above the national average of 13-percent. Data and Research Director Teresa Falgoust (FAAL-goo) says the lack of affordability of child care is one reason behind that big number.