The Louisiana Supreme Court says it will consider whether the state’s ban on nonunanimous jury verdicts should apply retroactively. The state’s split-jury ban went into effect in 2018 and in 2020 the U-S Supreme Court refused to make the law retroactive, but that doesn’t stop the state supreme court from making its own ruling that could lead to new trials for 15-hundred inmates.

The Louisiana Department of Health says the latest COVID data is encouraging, but there’s room for improvement. Brooke Thorington explains.
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A report from NOAA shows parts of Louisiana and Texas could see Gulf of Mexico waters rise 16 to 18 inches by 2050. Natalie Snider, Associate Vice President at the Environmental Defense Fund, says Louisiana is taking an aggressive approach to combat the rise in sea level…
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, hundreds of nursing home patients were stuffed inside an ill-equipped facility in Tangipahoa Parish that lost power. Several died as a result. St. Martin Parish Senator Fred Mills has filed a bill requiring nursing facilities to have a generator or an alternate electrical power source,,,
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Mills’ bill will be brought up when the legislature convenes its regular session on March 14th.