U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson believes Louisiana’s current Congressional map is constitutional and the state legislature should not approve a new map with two Black majority districts. But Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill says the state has exhausted all of its legal avenues…
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Governor Jeff Landry is backing a map that makes Republican Garret Graves’ sixth district the second Black voting district. Catahoula Parish Senator Glen Womack is the author of the map and he says it protects Speaker Johnson and majority leader Steve Scalise…
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The senate is expected to vote on this map this afternoon.

The Bayou State is coming out of a deep freeze but don’t put away your hats and gloves just yet.
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That’s Montra Lockwood with the National Weather Service in Lake Charles says who says high temperatures on Saturday will be back in the upper 30s for north Louisiana, and lows will be in the upper 20s for south Louisiana.

Nicholls State University has received a $3-million donation, which is the largest in the school’s history. Nicholls’ spokesperson Jerad David says the Mary and Al Danos Family Foundation commitment will be used to construct a new College of Business Administration.
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David says Al Danos was always a big fan and supporter of the university