Fifteen Mardi Gras horses will be up for adoption after carnival season. Teiko Foxx has more…
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Lawmakers are about 2 weeks from the governor’s special session on crime and Governor Landry is expected to push for expanding Louisiana’s death penalty. Colleen Crain has more.
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Twelve plaintiffs are named in a lawsuit against the most recently passed congressional map, claiming it racially segregates voters and separates communities of interests. Brooke Thorington explains.
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The Humane Society of Louisiana plans to make sure the good times keep rolling for more than a dozen Mardi Gras parade horses looking to be adopted following the end of carnival season. President Jeff Dorson says it helps save horses who are brought into the area to accommodate equine demand during Mardi Gras.
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HSLA partners with Cascade Stables which brings in horses to meet the demand of Mardi Gras krewes. The program has saved over 90 horses from potentially being sent to slaughter.
Dorson says the adoption fee usually runs from $650 to $850. He says the program has had 100 percent success since 2017 and he hopes to find homes for more horses.
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Every year the horses’ names are based on a theme and this year is spices. So expect to adopt nutmeg, poppy, honey, rosemary, pumpkin, and other spice names.
Dorson says they’ve got photos, bios, information about each horse’s personality, and which parade they trotted in on a Facebook page. And to make sure all horses are placed in good homes…
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You can find more information on their Facebook page at Humane Society of Louisiana’s Mardi Gras Horses Adoption Program.
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Louisiana’s Special Legislative session on crime will begin in about two weeks and Governor Landry has been speaking to lawmakers about possibly expanding the death penalty. The state’s last death row execution was in 2010. Landry says Louisiana is obligated to the victims…
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Landry says it takes a unanimous jury of 12 to convict someone of a capital crime and then the jury must come back with a 2nd unanimous decision for a death penalty sentence. He says failing to carry out that sentence goes further than fighting crime…
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When asked about expanding the death penalty to include specific methods like gas, hanging, and firing squad Landry didn’t comment on the methods themselves but said others are finding ways…
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State Transportation and Calcasieu Bridge Partners have reached a new agreement on a public-private partnership to construct a new Interstate-10 Calcasieu River Bridge in Lake Charles. DOTD Secretary Joe Donahue says tolls charged to motorists have also decreased from the original plan.
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Governor Landry touted the project had been renegotiated and costs have been reduced by more than 20 percent. Donahue explains expenses related to right-of-way acquisition, utility relocation, wetland impact mitigation, and others that the state is responsible for have been lowered.
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The entire project has an estimated price tag of $2.1 billion. Donahue says the retained costs (right-of-way acquisition, utility relocation, wetland impact mitigation, etc.) dropped from approximately $415 million to $281 million.
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Construction could begin as early as this year and is expected to be completed in approximately seven years.
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A lawsuit challenging the most recent congressional has been filed on behalf of twelve plaintiffs who identify themselves as non-African American voters. Monroe attorney Paul Hurd says like the congressional map in the 1990s that created a Z-shaped district, this map is drawn along racial lines, not communities of interests.
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The map in question was passed by the legislature in a special session last month that created a second majority-Black district that stretches the 6th congressional district from Baton Rouge to Shreveport. Hurd, who’s litigated congressional maps in Louisiana and other states before, says he hopes the unconstitutional nature of the 6th district is as apparent to the court as it is to his clients.
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Hurd says his clients filed the suit to put voters in communities of interest back together.
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