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

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The statewide average price of regular gas is now at $4.51; down a penny from last week…but still about 28-cents higher than one month ago. Gas cost $2.72 one year ago today.

A member of the House committee that handled redistricting proposals says the map lawmakers passed back in February does not comply with the Voting Rights Act. New Orleans Representative Royce Duplessis told the Baton Rouge Press Club that because one-sixth of the state’s population is Black, two of its six congressional districts should be majority-minority; not one…:

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State Police say two teens were struck by traffic and killed Sunday night, as they dealt with a broken-down vehicle on Interstate 10. Trooper Derek Senegal says Kyle Vidrine, of Lake Arthur, and Brannon Adams, of Jennings, were standing on the frontage road when they were hit by a Jeep; the driver blinded by oncoming headlights. He says that driver submitted a routine blood tox sample, but…:

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He says the crash seems to be just a tragic accident.