State Attorney General Liz Murrill is planning on suing New York and California in her fight to extradite doctors indicted for prescribing abortion pills to people in Louisiana. California Governor Gavin Newsom says his state will never help Louisiana criminalize healthcare. Murrill says Newsom and New York Governor Kathy Hochul are playing politics.
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LSU-Alexandria sets a new enrollment record, with overall spring enrollment up almost 12-percent year-over-year. Abbey Bain with LSU-A says two main factors are small class sizes and cost.
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Bain says there was also more than a 10-percent increase in on-campus enrollment for the spring semester.
The debate over whether guns should be permitted on college campuses will be up for debate again in the upcoming legislative session. Andre Champagne has the story.
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A teen who shot himself at the end of a high-speed chase through several parishes in southwest Louisiana has died. The chase happened mid-morning last Thursday through Beauregard, Calcasieu and Cameron parishes. The teen attended Oakdale High School. All schools in Oakdale are closed today so that students and faculty can attend his funeral.