A federal grand jury has indicted New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell on federal corruption charges. Jeff Palermo has the details…
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A three-judge panel from the Fifth U-S Circuit Court of appeals agrees with a district judge in Baton Rouge that the state’s legislative district map for the House and Senate violate the Voting Rights Act, because it dilutes Black votes. Political analyst Scott Hughes says the issue isn’t going to be resolved until the U-S Supreme Court rules on the state’s contested Congressional map…
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LSU football coach Brian Kelly spoke publicly today for the first time since the arrest of freshman running back JT Lindsey. Lindsey is accused of harboring two wanted second-degree murder suspects in his LSU dorm room for several days. There’s also a report of guns found inside the apartment, raising questions on how firearms got inside a university owned building. Kelly says it appears Lindsey was hanging out with the wrong crowd…
Lindsey has been suspended from the football team until his criminal case is resolved.
A record low percentage of Americans currently drink alcohol; 54-percent of according to a Gallop poll. LSU Health New Orleans physiology professor Nick Gilpin says it’s been known that too much alcohol can impact a person’s liver, but we are learning that an regular alcohol consumption can lead to other health problems…
Gilpen says the poll shows that younger adults are at the center of the decline in alcohol consumption.