New Orleans Congressman Troy Carter is among the sponsors of a bipartisan bill that would require all middle school and high school student IDs and websites to include mental health and suicide prevention information. Carter says kids contemplating suicide will call the 988 suicide prevention hotline rather than people they know.
The race is on for the next District 5 U.S. Representative as Julia Letlow vacates the post to run for U.S. Senate. Greg Hilburn, a Louisiana politics reporter for the USA Today Network, says with qualifying less than three weeks away, candidates will have to resort to creative ways to raise
money.
Lane Kiffin has added the 13th top player to LSU’s transfer portal class yesterday. Andre Champagne has more.
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North Louisiana could be hit with a significant ice storm this weekend with the potential for ice accumulations as far south as parts of the I-10/I-12 corridor by Saturday night and any road closures could be lengthy. Rodney Mallett with DOTD says they do have a chemical called Pavix that can help with iced over bridges, elevated highways and roads.
Mallett says the state also has more than ten million pounds of salt.