Despite a court order to map a congressional map with two minority districts the legislature failed to deliver. Brooke Thorington has more…:

CUT 01(42)      “…Brooke Thorington.”

The Department of Health reports over 4-thousand new cases of COVID statewide, with 350 currently under hospital care for it. Two new COVID-related deaths are also reported.

After recent incidents at the Bridge City Center for Youth and the Swanson Center for Youth in Monroe, Governor John Bel Edwards has directed the Louisiana State Police and The Department of Corrections to provide personnel to those facilities to help with staffing shortages. Office of Juvenile Justice spokesperson Nicolette Gordon says the staff shortages extend to service providers needed on-hand to help in the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders and that both are required for these facilities to fulfill their roles…:

CUT 08(09)      “…thing in order.”

OJJ was provided with $5 million for enhancements during the 2022 Regular Legislative Session that can be accessed immediately.

State Police say two teenage girls died Sunday in Ascension Parish, when the car they were in went off the roadway, careened off a tree then crashed into a pond. Both girls were just 16. Trooper say they are unaware if they were properly seatbelted. The crash remains under investigation.