Lawmakers are debating Congressional Maps in Senate Governmental Affairs after a court-imposed deadline of June 20th remains in effect for a map with two majority-Black districts. Brooke Thorington has more…:
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Meanwhile, the federal judge who tossed the congressional map passed by lawmakers in February has denied an extension of the June 20th deadline to submit a new map to her. Lawmakers now have four days to complete their work.
New Orleans Police say two people were wounded in separate shootings as they drove on Interstate 10 in the Crescent City yesterday. One in Eastern New Orleans and another near the Gentilly area. They ask residents who may know anything about who’s pulling the trigger to please come forward.
A crime & corruption watchdog group calls for review of a Tangipahoa Parish case wherein a rape victim was ordered to pay child support to her alleged attacker. Metropolitan Crime Commission director Rafael Goyeneche says the victim was just 16 when the attack occurred, and the man she accuses found out she’d had a child five years later…:
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Early this year, a judge ordered the mother to pay child support. Goyeneche says one Tangipahoa Parish law enforcement agency has failed to investigate the woman’s complaint…so he’s referred the case to another for review. He says the father of the now 16-year-old daughter could still be investigated for rape or at least carnal knowledge of a juvenile.