Nine people were shot last early Friday morning at a southern University frat house, as that school’s Homecoming Week draws to an end. Baton Rouge Police spokesman Lt. Don Coppola says officers responded to the Kappa Alpha Psi House at around 2 am…:
The investigation is ongoing.
There’s a gun buyback program scheduled for Saturday in Jeanerette. The program is a faith-based effort to get guns off the street and help prevent further violence. Organizer Felton Hogan says the buyback will start at noon Saturday at Jeanerette’s King Joseph Recreational Center. Hogan says his group had a successful buyback in New Iberia recently as well…:
Cut 3 (12) “…one life at a time.”
The Department of Children and Family Services plans to hire 50 nurses to make home visits to infants who were exposed to substance abuse by their mothers while pregnant. DCFS Secretary Marketa Garner Walters says the purpose is for nurses to check that the mother understands how to protect their child and…
The State Supreme Court refused to allow non-unanimous jury convictions be retroactive. It denies new trials for as many as 15-hundred inmates. Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino says when the state law passed the law it specifically addressed that non-unanimous verdicts would not be retroactive, but lawmakers are free to change that law.