A federal court in New Orleans will hear former Mayor Ray Nagin’s appeal to his conviction on fraud charges today. Loyola Law Professor Dane Ciolino says Nagin claims that the city would have awarded the contracts in question regardless of whether or not he received any kind of payment from the contractors…

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Nagin is arguing that the jury was incorrectly instructed on laws regarding honest services fraud.

The Department of Children and Family Services is in the process of moving towards a new stored value card for child support clients. Secretary Suzy Sonnier says this means all clients currently using the card need to update their address as soon as possible. She says to change your address visit D-C-F-S-dot-L-A-dot-G-O-V-backslash-cafe…

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Sonnier says as D-C-F-S switches vendors, all clients will receive a new value card in the mail.

About 280-thousand dollars has been raised for the 11 victims and the families of the two women killed in July’s Lafayette theater shooting. CEO of Pixus Digital Printing Todd Landry says the company raised the majority of the money by selling signs, t-shirts, car decals. He says he never dreamed they’d have this kind of impact…

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He says they’re still receiving orders, a little more than two months since the tragedy.

New changes are in place for the Powerball multi-state lottery game which will make it more difficult for players to win the grand prize, but more money could be won in other ways. Louisiana Lottery Spokesperson Kim Chopin says the matrix changes will increase the odds of winning the jackpot from 1 in 175 million to 1 and 292 million….

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To produce the added player benefits, ten numbers will be added to the field of white-ball numbers and nine Powerball numbers will be removed.