A fully-loaded nine-millimeter handgun was in the vehicle Will Smith was driving the night he was fatally shot in New Orleans. That’s according to the NOPD, who also found a fully loaded revolver inside the Hummer belonging to Cardale Hayes, who has been charged with second-degree murder.

Legislation to protect clergy from sanctions if they refuse to perform a same-sex marriage passes out of a House committee…
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Governor John Bel Edwards presented his proposed budget for the next fiscal year and it contains big reductions in state funding for the TOPS scholarship program and hospitals that provide care to the poor. Edwards says only having a third of the money needed to pay for TOPS is another reason why they need a second special session…:
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The governor says a second special session could begin as early as June 7th.

A senate committee has advanced to the Senate floor a bill that raises the adult prosecution age from 17 to 18-years-old. A 15-year-old high school student spoke in favor of the bill. She says her brother was arrested at 17 and spent a week in jail without any school…
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Louisiana is just one of nine states that has 17-year-olds in their adult criminal justice system.