Help to make your house more storm resistant. $30-million in state money has been budgeted for the Fortified Homes Program, to offer grants of up to $10-thousand to reinforce home roofs and structures against hurricane impacts. House Insurance Committee Chairman Mike Huval, of Breaux Bridge, says the recently passed program is an important step to make homes safer…:

CUT 05(13)      “…this session.”

Applications could start within a few months.

High school seniors who fail the LEAP test will have a graduation appeal process set up, under a plan approved by the Board of Elementary & Secondary Education. BESE president Dr. Holly Boffy says some kids just choke on tests, and that shouldn’t necessarily bar them getting their diploma…:

CUT 14(12)      “…standardized test.”

51 of Louisiana’s 57 death row inmates have filed for clemency from the Governor; asking that death be commuted to life behind bars. Governor John Bel Edwards was asked recently if he would commute all of them…:

CUT 09(12)      “…happens.”

Since 1999, nine persons on death row have been proven to be not guilty and released.

A related story: one of those persons was 68-year-old Larry Moses, of New Orleans; wrongly convicted of murder in 1995 and sentenced to life. Moses was released from prison Tuesday, after new evidence cleared him of that crime.

Baton Rouge rapper Boosie Badazz – real name Torrence Hatch – is under arrest again on a federal weapons charge. He was arrested in a San Diego court Wednesday, right after having another illegal weapons charge dismissed.