The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office is mourning the death of Sergeant Grant Candies who died while trying to end a police chase involving a 17-year-old driver. Candies was killed when the juvenile driver hit him as he was deploying a spike strip on Interstate 10 early Sunday morning. The pursuit ended in Orleans Parish when the 17-year-old crashed into a New Orleans police vehicle.

If your driver’s license is set to expire, go ahead and wait a few days before renewing it. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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The U-S Supreme Court will listen to arguments today on a lawsuit that claims Louisiana’s Congressional map is not constitutional because the district currently occupied by Democrat Cleo Fields was drawn strictly based on race, which is an alleged violation of the Equal Protection Clause. But Louisiana ACLU executive director Alanah Odoms says a second Black majority district is needed to give Black voters fair and equal representation…

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Alexandria Senator Jay Luneau has filed legislation to do something about drivers on a four-lane highway driving slow in the left-lane and causing a rolling roadblock. Current law allows law enforcement to ticket a motorist driving ten miles or more slower than the posted speed limit, but Luneau says that’s hard to enforce…

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Luneau’s legislation, which will be heard in the upcoming regular session, would make it a 150-dollar fine for motorists driving in the left lane and slow speed and not looking to pass other vehicles.