Mona Hardin the mother of Ronald Greene who died two and a half and years ago during a traffic arrest involving state police addressed the Senate Select Committee on State Police Oversight on Monday. Brooke Thorington has more
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The oversight committee requested last week that Superintendent of LSP Colonel Lamar Davis have the officers who were involved with the arrest of Greene attend Monday’s meeting, but none appeared.
After St. Tammany voters’ rejection of Pacific Peninsula’s proposal to use its gambling license for a casino resort near Slidell, it’s back to Diamond Jacks in Bossier City. Wade Duty, executive director of the Louisiana Casino Association:
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Duty says that answer will be hashed out between the license holder and the state’s Gaming Control Board should the choice be not to reopen Diamond Jacks.
The state health department says 650,000 eligible children in Louisiana are not vaccinated against COVID, while 123,000 5-to-17 year-olds have completed the vaccine series. Doctor Catherine O’ Neal at Our Lady of the Lake in Baton Rouge is a mother and understands parents’ concerns, but they shouldn’t worry about this vaccine
O’ Neal says the risks of COVID-19 to children far outweigh the risks of vaccination.