Nancy Davis was denied an abortion in Louisiana despite being told her baby had a lethal condition in which the skull does not fully form. She says doctors were afraid of being charged criminally if they performed the abortion, so she’s going out of state next week to have a two-day procedure…
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Attorneys representing Davis are calling on the legislature to hold a special session to clarify the state’s abortion ban laws.
A preliminary settlement has been reached in the class-action lawsuit against Bob Dean over the evacuation of nursing home patients to a warehouse during Hurricane Ida. Blair Constant, one of the attorneys representing patients, says it equates to about $17-thousand for each patient, and reaching a settlement in such a short time frame is rare.
The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources announces a 25-million dollar federal grant that will go towards cleaning up abandoned wells. D-N-R spokesperson Patrick Courreges says the funding comes from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 and the feds have indicated states will receive additional funding in the coming months….
Farmers could be seeking federal assistance soon if it doesn’t stop raining. Over a foot of rain has fallen in some areas of northeast Louisiana, which is not good for the soybean crop. Farmers are seeing pod degradation and LSU soybean specialist Doctor David Moselely says producers would like to see a run of dry weather to harvest their crop…