A Baton Rouge federal judge has scheduled a hearing today to decide if Angola death row inmates should have air conditioning. Emelie Gunn has more…:
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A former deputy with the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office is under arrest amid charges he had sex with a juvenile while he was on duty. Cops say 31-year-old William Lanoux of Prairieville is charged with malfeasance in office and 1st degree rape. Deputies say the juvenile was considered a runaway when she allegedly met Lanoux on social media and the two went off to have sex. Upon Lanoux’s arrest he was immediately terminated.

Cops say the badly decomposed body of a woman was located in Iberville Parish on Tuesday, and it could be that of the missing school teacher from Baton Rouge. The remains were turned over to the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroners office, according to authorities. They say DNA testing and an autopsy is being performed to determine if the body is that of 40-year-old Lyntell Washington.

Governor John Bel Edwards has signed the REAL ID Act into law, bringing Louisiana into compliance with the 2005 federal ruling that created national identification standards in the wake of 9/11. Edwards says these ID’s will be required for air travel, even domestic, in the near future…:
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