Governor John Bel Edwards plan to move violent youth offenders from the Bridge City Center for Youth to Angola are on hold until September after a team of civil rights attorneys filed a motion on the grounds that it violates a juvenile’s due process. Loyola Law Professor Dane Ciolino says the suit has merit because the US Supreme Court says you can’t treat juveniles the same as adults.
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A trial on the issue has been set for September sixth.

New CDC data finds Louisiana’s life expectancy in 2022 was 73 years old that’s down nearly three years from 2019. Dr. Benjamin Springgate is Chief of Community and Population Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans and he says the pandemic played a significant role in a lower life expectancy…
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Louisiana ranks 49th out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia in life expectancy.

After several insurance companies have left our state, Louisiana Citizens, the state’s last-resort property insurer has doubled its number of customers. Kevin Gallagher reports what that may mean, as the height of storm season approaches…:
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