Legislation to soften the penalties for those convicted multiple times for marijuana possession continue to make progress in the legislature…
cut 2 (30) “…reporting”

Former US Senator Mary Landrieu has landed a new job; joining a Washington DC lobbying firm called Van Ness Feldman. Landrieu will be that firm’s senior policy advisor on energy, natural resources and infrastructure issues. Landrieu was beat out by Bill Cassidy in last year’s Senate race.
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A bill by a Houma lawmaker that would penalize doctors who knowingly end a pregnancy because of sex preference, has stalled in a Senate Judiciary Committee. Committee Chair New Orleans Senator JP Morrell says he couldn’t support the legislation by Representative Lenar White without evidence it’s a problem…
CUT 14 (09) Q: “timing of it”

With the severe weather rolling in the state earlier today, weather experts are pointing to El Nino as a major cause for the above average rainfall. State Cimatologest Barry Keim says the state has averaged about six inches of rain over the last month, but some isolated areas have gotten more…
CUT 10 (10) Q :’above normal’