Is Louisiana headed in the “wrong direction?” A new LSU public opinion poll indicates two-thirds of us think, “yes.” Jeff Palermo reports…:

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State Police say an Ascension Parish man was killed last night when – for reasons unknown – he stopped his car in the middle of westbound Interstate 10 and got out. 39-year-old Kyle Ripple was struck by two separate vehicles. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Why he stopped in the middle of a travel lane instead of pulling over is not yet known.

More than three years after the shooting death of LSU basketball player Wayde Sims, 23-year-old Dyteon Simpson of Baker has been convicted of second-degree murder. Video of the shooting was critical to the case, as jurors saw the fatal confrontation from multiple angles. East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore applauded his prosecutors for their work and thanked the jury for reaching a guilty verdict…:

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Simpson faces a mandatory life sentence.

At the Capitol, a bill that would have forbidden grocers and other shops from bagging your goods in those familiar plastic bags was pulled from consideration, after the bill sponsor received a lot of pushback from committee members and citizens – like grocery store owner Brandon Trosclair, who feels the bill unfairly singles out grocers as a primary source of litter…:

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