On his monthly talk show, Governor Edwards went after Attorney General Jeff Landry for his participation in a lawsuit that sought to overturn the results of the Presidential election. Matt Doyle has the story.
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A Shreveport man serving a life sentence for selling two bags of marijuana has been released after 12 years in Angola. Brooke Thorington spoke with the Innocence Project New Orleans.
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On his monthly talk show Governor Edwards said it’s past time everyone accepts President-elect Joe Biden won the November election.
Edwards says it’s hard to justify holding out considering just earlier this week the Electoral College gave Biden 306 votes.
Senator Bill Cassidy is the only member of the Louisiana Republican Congressional Delegation to publicly acknowledge Biden’s win.
Edwards bemoaned what he called a “fruitless” effort by some Republican Attorneys General, including Jeff Landry, to challenge the legitimacy of votes in key battleground states.
Over the weekend the US Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by the Texas AG challenging those votes.
Edwards says it is vital for our democracy that these results be accepted.
36 percent of all voters and 77 percent of Trump voters in a recent Fox News poll believe the election was stolen from the President.
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Fate Winslow is a free man after serving 12-years in prison for selling marijuana to an undercover police officer in Shreveport for 20-dollars. Winslow was sentenced to life in prison in 2008 because he was a fourth-time habitual offender. Innocence Project New Orleans Executive Director Jee Park says Winslow was released on the grounds of ineffective counsel.
Park says IPNO has been working for about a year to overturn the sentence due to ineffective counsel and working with the Caddo Parish District Attorney.
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Winslow had three previous felony convictions but they were nonviolent offenses. Park says the 53-year-old spent almost a quarter of his life behind bars for selling two bags of marijuana valued at 20 bucks…
Winslow is the third individual IPNO has freed this year through its new Unjust Punish Project. Park also noted that the crime Winslow was convicted of is no longer a crime in 16 states and the District of Columbia
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Tomorrow is the last day to ship a Christmas present via USPS First-Class Mail and have it arrive in time for Christmas.
USPS spokesperson Albert Ruiz says it’s vital you ship that package ASAP because a lot more packages are getting shipped this season than in prior years.
The priority mail deadline is December 19th.
Ruiz says USPS workers are doing overtime hours to meet the massive demand this year.
If you wait any longer than tomorrow your final and most expensive option for a Christmas delivery is Priority Mail Express, due by December 23rd. Ruiz says using that option might not get it in time for Christmas Eve, but…
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ExxonMobil is looking at investing 240-million dollars into its Baton Rouge refinery and a decision on whether to proceed would be made next year. Exxon’s Baton Rouge refinery manager Gloria Moncada says they plan to install new technology into the refinery that’s been around for 110 years…
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Baton Rouge Exxon Mobil refinery employs 13-hundred workers. Moncada says the project would not add permanent jobs, but it would provide hundreds of construction jobs…
Moncada says in order for the project to be approved, they need local governments in East Baton Rouge to grant them a property tax break through the Industrial Tax Exemption Program…
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Moncada says they also plan to use the state’s workforce development training program known as FastStart.