A legal mess in New Orleans. On Thursday, an Orleans Parish grand jury indicted Attorney General Liz Murrill on 16 counts for sending letters to New Orleans elected officials that warned they could be removed from office if they kept making moves against a new state law that combined the city’s criminal and civil courts. Early Friday morning, the state Supreme Court halted the criminal case over concerns about how the grand jury conducted its business. The state’s highest court also issued an emergency order vacating the 400-thousand-dollar arrest warrant for Murrill. Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino says most legal observers would agree that Murrill’s letters did not violate state law….
Murrill calls the indictment a political witch hunt.
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SeaD Consulting went to 44 New Orleans restaurants and found out that 11 of them served imported shrimp. Chief Operating Officer Erin Williams says of those 11, nine of them misrepresented the origins of their shrimp…
Cut 4 (15) “…wild caught shrimp”
Williams says she is surprised by the high number of New Orleans restaurants serving imported shrimp.
Childhood obesity is a big problem in this state. LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Center has received grant money to enroll hundreds of children into what they are calling the COACH trial, which Doctor Amanda Staiano says can help families improve their health through personalized nutrition counseling…