Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says property insurance reforms are working. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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A second person has been arrested in the death of Southern University student Caleb Wilson of Kenner. Baton Rouge Police say the 20-year-old Wilson died from a hazing incident as he was punched in the chest while pledging Omega Psi Phi. Twenty-five-year-old Kyle Thurman was arrested yesterday in Port Allen. Twenty-three-year-old Caleb McCray was the first suspect arrested and a third suspect is still at large.
The lease for the temporary housing facility in New Orleans’ Gentilly neighborhood that housed homeless people during the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras expires today, but it will remain open for the time being. Mike Steele with GOHSEP says they will extend the lease of the facility on France Road as long as necessary in short chunks.
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Steele says at one point there were 183 people in the transitional center and it’s now down to 78.
Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser is pardoning a crawfish today. For the last nine years, Nungesser has spared the life of one crawfish, keeping it from going into a boiling pot of mudbugs….
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The pardoning of the crawfish will take place at Pat’s Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurant in Henderson.