Drivers in Louisiana won’t be getting a break anytime soon at when it comes to cost auto ownership. Tim Waldenback, co-founder of Zutobi, an online driver’s education platform, says insurance premiums will keep the state on track to become the most expensive in the nation to operate a vehicle in 2031.
Included in the newly signed infrastructure bill is $65-billion in funding to expand broadband, and that includes rural Louisiana. Senator Bill Cassidy says the expansion could lead to distribution centers being able to locate in parts of the state once not considered by companies.
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A now 75-year-old Louisiana man who’s spent about 58 years in prison for the shooting death of an East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputy when he was 17 is granted parole by the Louisiana Parole Board. Louisiana Parole Project Deputy Director Kerry Myers says Henry Montgomery’s parole, follows a 2012 Supreme Court ruling that a mandatory life sentence without parole for juveniles is cruel and unusual punishment since the brain isn’t fully developed until your mid 20s.
Montgomery had originally been sentenced to death for the murder of Deputy Charles Hurt.