The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled the state’s ban on non-unanimous verdicts for violent offenses can not be used retroactively. The decision impacts about 15-hundred inmates who were convicted on a 10-2 or 11-1 decision and hoping for a new trial. Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino says the U-S Supreme Court declined to make non-unanimous verdicts retroactive two years ago and the state supreme court ruled six to one against it…
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Baton Rouge Police are still searching for the person who fired a gun at a fraternity party near the Southern University campus early this morning. Authorities say nine people suffered non-life threatening wounds. We spoke with a Southern student who was there…
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It’s homecoming weekend for Southern University.

The Department of Children and Family Services says they are in the process of hiring 50 nurses who will make home visits to infants who were exposed to substance abuse by their mothers while pregnant. DCFS Secretary Marketa Garner Walters says if a nurse encounters a visit where they sense the child is in danger, they will act…
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DCFS has been criticized for failing to prevent the overdose death of a two-year child earlier this year, even though they were warned about the mom’s behavior.

A gun buyback event will be held in Jeanerette on Saturday, starting at noona t the Jeanerette King Joseph Recreational Center. Organizer Felton Hogan says they’ll pay up to 300-dollars to get a gun off the streets…
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Hogan says they held a gun buy back in New Iberia in August and collected 25 guns and plan to hold one in Abbeville early next year.