Local leaders along the I-20 corridor will meet with Amtrak and Southern Rail Commission today and tomorrow to discuss the possibility of passenger rail service through north Louisiana…
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An investigative report by WWL-TV and the Advocate-Times Picayune says, former Congressman and presidential adviser Cedric Richmond was involved in a single vehicle crash in New Orleans on April 23rd with his son in the vehicle. And officers never administered a DWI test even though the police report says he was disoriented and slurring his words. The NOPD only cited 69 drivers for DWI last year.

The Agenda for Children has released a report that shows there are only two parishes in Louisiana, Livingston and Ascension, where the child poverty rate is lower than the national average. And the child poverty rate exceeds 40-percent in six parishes. Director of Data and Research for Agenda for Children, Teresa Falgoust, says over the past decade the state has not improved its child poverty rate…
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Baton Rouge Police have arrested a man seen on cell phone video smoking what appeared to be a marijuana cigar with a five-year-old child. 48-year-old John Hall was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on several charges. Lt. L’Jean McKneely says the child was one of the kids involved in an accidental shooting last month…
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The child’s mother was arrested last month on a charge of second-degree cruelty to juveniles and obstruction of justice.