Legislation that would allow individuals to be buried with the cremated remains of their pet is set to be heard in House Commerce today. It’s currently illegal to have the cremated remains of an animal inside a person’s coffin. Minden Representative Wayne McMahen says his legislation gives each cemetery the ability to develop its own policy…
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McMahen says for pet lovers, having this option is extremely meaningful.

A St. John the Baptist Parish woman is in the Guinness World Record Book for having the largest afro, at about ten inches tall, ten inches wide and five inches in circumference. The 47-year-old woman’s name is Aevin Dugas…
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Dugas has held the record three different times over the last 13 years.

We are moving into the third week of the legislative session and proposed changes to the state’s abortion ban have yet to come up. Not only is there is a bill to provide exceptions for rape and incest, but there’s also legislation to clear up the language to get an abortion to treat miscarriages and a bill to reduce the punishment against doctors if they perform an illegal abortion….
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That’s Lift Louisiana Executive Director Michelle Erenberg. But the Louisiana Right to Life is expected to fight these proposed changes to the abortion ban.