Governor John Bel Edwards spoke at an interfaith ceremony celebrating the life of former Governor Kathleen Blanco at St. Joseph Cathedral in Baton Rouge today. Edwards says it was Blanco’s role as a school teacher that made her love the children of Louisiana as her own.
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Flags will remain at half-staff until her burial in Lafayette Saturday.
The state’s most powerful business lobby, The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, endorses both Republican contenders in the Governor’s race. It’s a change of pace for the political powerhouse who did not endorse in the primary last year. Political Analyst Bernie Pinsonat says LABI has little to lose from going hard after the Governor.
The ACLU sues the Ascension Parish Sheriff, alleging the unconstitutional detaining of a Hispanic US Citizen for four days on racial grounds.
New evidence leads to the arrest of a 70-year-old Lonnie Frazier of Ruston on Second Degree Murder charges, fifteen years after Cheryl Williams went missing in Lincoln Parish. Lincoln Parish Lt. J.D. Driscol says the arrest has been a relief to Williams’ family, who’ve waited more than a decade to see justice served.