New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell entered a not guilty plea in federal court today. Cantrell allegedly spent 70-thousand dollars in city funds on personal activities that involved her former bodyguard, Jeffrey Vappie. Paperwork was filed that showed Vappie was working, but prosecutors say they were having an affair.
The East Baton Rouge District Attorney is considering pursing the death penalty in the case of a man accused of raping a four-year-old child.
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Florida will soon become the first state in the country to exempt all children from routine childhood vaccines as a condition of enrolling in school. Senator Bill Cassidy, who’s a medical doctor by trade, says it’s a bad decision.
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Cassidy says the childhood vaccines have been administered for years; and up until now, school districts in all 50 states have required them.
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.