7:30 am Newscast

The regular session begins at noon today and insurance reform will be a major topic. Teiko Foxx has more…

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“Oppenheimer” won big at the 2024 Oscars, last night earning awards in three major categories. The film walked away with the best picture title, Cillian Murphy won the award for best actor, and Christopher Nolan walked away with the title of best director. In all “Oppenheimer had 13 nominations at last night’s Academy Awards.
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New Orleans Democrat Representative Delisha Boyd is trying again to add exceptions for rape and incest to the state’s near-total abortion ban. Even though Boyd’s mother, who was raped in her teens and gave birth to her at age 15, she still advocates for exceptions.

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House Bill 164 would allow physicians to terminate a pregnancy if it’s a result of rape or incest.

A bill requiring automated enforcement devices to take a photo of the speeding driver not just the license plate of the vehicle has been filed for the session. Marksville Representative Daryl Deshotel says the current procedure that snaps a photo of the license plate and automatically sends a ticket to the vehicle’s registered owner isn’t fair because the driver may not be the registered owner.

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