GOP candidate for governor Stephen Waguespack releases his first official campaign ad, as he seeks to gain traction in the October election.
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Multiple state agencies continue to be crippled by a network outage that started yesterday. The Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles, State Police, DCFS and Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries were among the agencies affected. Systems are reportedly starting to come back online after a hardware failure that included backup systems.

A Baton Rouge mother is in jail after an accidental shooting involving two children left them wounded. Sergeant L’ Jean McKneely says a six and a three-year-old found an unsecured Draco AK-47 and one of the children started firing the gun, while under the care of 26-year-old Desiree Felder. McNeely says Felder did not take the kids to the hospital and tried to hide the wounds….
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Felder has been charged with second-degree cruelty to a juvenile and obstruction of justice. The kids are expected to be okay.

Legislation to enact paid family leave was voluntarily deferred in the House Labor committee. Alexandria Representative Ed Larvadian says they’ll work on improving the bill…
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The legislation would require family and medical leave benefits for up to 12 weeks when caring for a new child, caring for a family member with a serious health condition, or if an individual has a serious health condition.