Authorities have arrested a suspect in the April 28th fatal shooting of an employee at Mandina’s restaurant in New Orleans. The alleged gunman, 22-year-old Kyron Fazande, was taken into custody at a home in Houston. He’s accused of killing 23-year-old Hilbert Walker the Third. A customer at the restaurant was also wounded.

As the Senate debates a House approved bill to extend the state’s film tax credit program to 2035, a legislative auditor’s report looks at its economic impact…
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The Louisiana House has approved legislation requiring public school employees to use the names and pronouns on a students’ birth certificate unless parents provide written permission to do so otherwise. But Bossier City Representative Raymond Crews’ legislation also says an employee is not required to use another pronoun if it goes against their religious or moral convictions. Homer Representative Patrick Jefferson and Crews discussed that provision…
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Crews bill passed on a 61-33 vote and heads to the Senate.

Emotional testimony in House Commerce committee over legislation that would allow renters to break their lease if they report to police multiple crime and drug offenses a tenth of mile away from their home. Cathy Toliver’s three-year-old grandson was killed by a stray bullet from drive by shooting last year…
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The House Commerce Committee is expected to vote on this bill today.