A Shreveport woman is accused of intentionally slamming the head of her 23-month old child following a bus accident in an effort to collect an insurance payment. State Police Trooper Brent Hardy says the arrest of 38-year-old Deidra Lee comes after their investigation
No word on the child’s condition
New Orleans city council unanimously bans property owners from renting out homes for Airbnb use unless the home is their primary residence. Opponents say the ruling is a violation of property rights, and the city has no right to dictate use their land.
Supporters say real estate speculators have been buying up historic residential neighborhoods, pricing locals out of owning homes, and drastically cutting the supply of rentals.
The deadline to qualify to run for office in Louisiana was Thursday. Prominent Democrats steered clear of the statewide ballot despite the presence of a fairly popular governor. UL-Poli Sci Professor Pearson Cross says that’s an indictment against the state party.
The exception may be Attorney General Jeff Landry’s challenger, Ike Jackson Jr. who previously served as Assistant Attorney General of Louisiana.
The Louisiana Department of Health says now 450 cases of Hepatitis A have been confirmed as part of an ongoing outbreak in the state. LDH says five of those cases are unrelated to the current outbreak in the state and could be the result of infections happening outside of Louisiana. Of the outbreak 58-percent have been hospitalized with only one death reported. The majority of the cases are in Livingston and East Baton Rouge parishes