There are few details being released after a mass shooting in New Orleans just before midnight in the Warehouse District. One woman is dead, and five males and six females were also injured in the barrage of gunfire. The victim’s identity has not been released.
Louisiana Key Academy is a free public charter school for students with dyslexia and they are expanding to serve more students and more grades. Colleen Crain has the story.
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Legislation to restrict the use of bathrooms in schools, prisons, and domestic violence shelters to one’s biological sex passes in the House on a 79-16 vote. Haughton Representative Dodie Horton supports the bill because it protects females from biological males who identify as females from entering a women’s restroom.
New Orleans Representative Aimee Freeman says the small transgender population, which makes up 1.4% of the US residents, are not known to be sex offenders so why prohibit them from using the bathroom of their choice on a state level?
The legislation now heads to a Senate committee.