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The largest Fiscal Year plan for the Coastal Protection Restoration Authority in program history has been approved. Kace Kieschnick reports

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looked on with approval as Governor Landry signed Louisiana’s Make America Healthy Again bill into law. Secretary Kennedy says it affirms Landry’s commitment to turning Louisiana’s health around.

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One of the two remaining New Orleans jail escapees has been captured. Detectives from several agencies caught 33-year-old Antoine Massey Friday afternoon after an anonymous tip which led them to a home in New Orelans.  State Police Superintendent Colonel Robert Hodges says Massey had help during his time on the run.

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The Supreme Court has postponed ruling on Louisiana’s congressional redistricting plan until next term.  The Supreme Court hearing stems from a lawsuit from 12 “non-African-American voters” who say the reconfigured majority-Black districts were racial gerrymandering.  And Loyola University law professor Dane Ciolino says if a majority of the justices agree…

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