The state Public Service Commission looks at ways to help prevent massive power outages after numerous weather-related events have tested the state’s power grids. Brooke Thorington has more..:

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New Orleans Police arrest five people – all minors – for carjacking a ride share driver Wednesday night in the city’s Gentilly area. Cops say the group of four boys and one girl ordered the ride via an app, and when the driver arrived, they pulled a gun and stole his Jeep Cherokee. Kids today, right?

Senator John Kennedy says, if you’re angry about the increased cost of gas, food and everything else, the finger of blame points straight at the Biden Administration. On the Senate floor Wednesday, Kennedy said Biden’s proposed remedy for the economy is folly…:

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Kennedy hopes his Democrat colleagues will give up on what he calls “another extremist spending bill.”

A dark chapter from the Louisiana history books is being rectified, as the state Pardon & Parole Board earlier this week granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, a black man whose crime was riding a “whites only” car on a train to Covington back in the Jim Crow era. Governor Edwards’ office is planning a ceremony to sign the pardon. He spoke of it during his statewide radio show…:

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No date for the ceremony has yet been announced.