Legislation to add exceptions for rape and incest to the state’s abortion ban has been filed for the regular session, the same bill that failed to make it out of committee last year. Brooke Thorington has more.

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The body of a driver missing after a crash in Assumption Parish has been found near Bayou Lafourche. 64-year-old Gilbert Bunch Jr. and a passenger were driving down Highway 398 on March 2 when they crashed into Bayou Lafourche. The passenger was able to swim to the bank. Bunch’s body was found about six miles south of the crash location on Friday.

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Streamlining the state’s constitution will be another topic up for debate during the regular session. Louisiana’s constitution was adopted in 1974 but has been amended more than 200 times. Governor Jeff Landry has discussed with Republican lawmakers about taking some items out of the state’s constitution and putting them into state law. Pinsonat says a bill to condense the constitution has yet to be filed…

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You might have heard about the phenomenon of two broods of periodical cicadas, one that appears every 17 years and the other every 13 years, could coincide this year. But LSU AgCenter Entomologist Aaron Ashbrook says it doesn’t look like that will happen here in the Bayou State but elsewhere…