A 26-year-old woman from Wisconsin who was in New Orleans for a concert at the Smoothie King Center is dead and authorities are trying to figure out what happened. State Police found the body of Edashia Caraway on the I-10 Twin span. St. Tammany Parish coroner Christopher Tape says the manner of death is homicide from a hit-and-run. Tape says she traveled to Louisiana alone…
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Tape says it’s a mysterious death as they don’t know how she ended up on the Twin Span. Caraway was in NOLA for the NBA Youngboy concert.
Poverty among children in Louisiana is on the rise. The group Agenda for Children says the poverty rate among children in Louisiana is 19-percent – currently the highest in the country. That’s also far above the national average of 13-percent. Data and Research Director Teresa Falgoust (FAAL-goo) says economic factors are a major reason behind the spike.
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As the legislature gets set to debate the primary schedule for next year’s federal elections, the lieutenant governor leaves no doubt on what he thinks about party primaries.
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A special session begins tomorrow. It’s expected to be a short session as legislators are seeking to push back the dates of the party primary elections for Senator Cassidy’s seat and U-S House races. Currently, the first party primary is in April and it will likely be pushed back at least a month in case the Supreme Court rules the current Congressional map is unconstitutional.