Homecoming at Southern University is marred by a shooting during an off-campus homecoming celebration. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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A nine-year-old lawsuit against oil and gas companies over damages to wetlands in Louisiana will return to a state court for trial after federal judges upheld a January decision from the late U.S. District Judge L.C. Feldman of New Orleans. The suit filed by Plaquemines Parish against Chevron USA, Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, BP America and Shell returns to state court in Plaquemines Parish
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 five years ago the department was ordered to come into compliance with follow-up visits for those infants.
DCFS came under fire after a two-year-old’s overdosed death from fentanyl after the agency received multiple warnings about the child and other child welfare incidents.
The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled the state’s ban on non-unanimous verdicts for violent offenses cannot be used retroactively. The decision impacts about 15-hundred inmates hoping for a new trial. Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino says the U-S Supreme Court declined to make non-unanimous verdicts retroactive two years ago and the state supreme court ruled six to one against it…