The Louisiana Legislative Auditor says an audit of the handling of sexual assault kits collected from July 2024 through December 2025 found that nearly one out of every five had not been submitted to a crime lab for testing. Performance Audit Manager Kristin Jacobs says that doesn’t necessarily indicate negligence; thus, the Legislative Auditor is recommending expanding status classifications of these kits.

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Federal employees are experiencing soaring health insurance costs, including 50-thousand of them in Louisiana. John Hatton with the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association says the rate these costs are increasing is staggering.

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Hatton says some of these plans have premiums that exceed one-thousand dollars a month.

A south Louisiana teenager faces multiple charges for an ATV crash that injured four teens, including himself. Jeff Palermo has the story.

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The Louisiana Unclaimed Property Program has added another ten-million dollars. State Treasurer John Fleming notes that the unclaimed money belongs to their rightful owners, and they range from small amounts to six figures. To see whether you have any unclaimed money owed to you, just visit L-A-Cash-Claim-dot-org.