As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, federal officials reinstate $ 190 million in canceled offshore oil & gas lease sales from last November. Kevin Gallagher looks at what this means for Louisiana…:
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Thibodaux Police announce a second juvenile has been arrested in the weekend fatal shooting of a 15-year-old. A 12-year-old male was taken into custody and charged with one count of principle to the second-degree murder. Earlier this week, a 15-year-old was charged with second-degree murder for allegedly shooting 15-year-old Jairen Cole multiple times inside a home on Saturday.

The U-S Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration has committed one-point-eight million dollars towards the construction of a biotech facility on the University of Louisiana Monroe campus. Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson says this federal grant adds to the financial resources already identified to construct a new Biomedical Research and Innovation Park at ULM…
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Total capital investment is projected to reach 34-million dollars.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has introduced a bill that would ban abortions nationwide after 15 weeks. Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy believes abortion should be a state’s rights issue, which is what the U-S Supreme Court determined in the case of Dobbs versus Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which reversed Roe versus Wade…
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