According to the Center of Analytics and Research in Transportation Safety at LSU, DWI arrests increased by four percent from the previous year in 2024. Mark Lambert with the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission says increased law enforcement is helping keep the roads safer.
The number of people killed on Louisiana roads in 2024 dropped to its lowest level in five years. Lambert says the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission believes that’s because of less drunk driving and more people are buckled up.
Florida has announced they plan to repeal its vaccine requirements for children attending school. Louisiana U-S Senator Bill Cassidy believes that’s a bad idea and he’s not the only Republican to think that…
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Florida’s Surgeon General says they are moving forward with this policy because he believes you have sovereignty over your body and that’s that.
The East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney’s Office is considering seeking the death penalty against a man who allegedly raped a four-year-old child, infecting that child with a sexually transmitted disease. 25-year-old Anthony Jelks is charged with first-degree rape. District Attorney Hillar Moore says the biggest obstacle in pursuing the death penalty against Jelks is a 2008 Supreme Court decision that ruled that executing someone for a crime in which the victim did not die amounts to cruel and unusual punishment…
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Moore says if the death penalty is not an option, Louisiana has laws that allow for chemical or surgical castration of a person convicted of raping a child.
The Humane Society of Louisiana is challenging you to perform at least one random act of kindness to animals over the course of the next 30 days. Founder and Director Jeff Dorson has some ideas.
Dorson says this is the first year that the Humane Society is doing the “Be Kind To Animals 30-Day Challenge,” and it comes at a time when Louisiana is facing challenges such as overpopulation, stray animals and limited resources for shelters.