The deadline to register for the first 100,000 dollar drawing in the shot at a million vaccine incentive campaign is Friday at midnight and as we get closer to that date scammers are increasingly trying to take advantage of it by reportedly calling residents pretending to be state workers collecting personal information to register them for the lotto. Carmen Million with the Better Business Bureau of South Central Louisiana says if you get called, report it…
Starting in August penalties for trying to win notoriety by sharing violent criminal acts on social media are going up from 500 dollars and up to six months in jail to 2,000 dollars or up to up to eight months in jail. That’s due to a recently signed bill authored by Jennings Representative Troy Romero who says his legislation was inspired by a tragic situation in Lake Charles where a 13-year-old filmed an attack on a 15-year-old.
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The FBI has taken the unusual step of ordering a second review of the autopsy of Ronald Greene, a Black man who died after being severely beaten by state police in 2019. This is part of an ongoing civil rights investigation into the incident and Federal prosecutors say expect a case to be brought by the end of the summer.