The “Blue Lives Matter” law goes into effect today. Jeff Palermo reports attacks on law enforcement are now considered a hate crime…
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There are over 400 new laws that go into effect today. Hunters can now wear “blaze pink.” Dancers in strib clubs must be over the age of 21. Fines for failing to wear a seat belt has doubled to 50-dollars. And convicted sex offenders are no longer able to do any kine of door-to-door business.

The LaFourche Parish Sheriff’s office says a mother fatally shot her young daughter, then shot herself in an apparent murder-suicide. Spokesperson Brennan Matherne says the little girl’s father discovered the horrific scene and called 9-1-1 just before noon on Sunday…
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The deceased individuals have been identified as 5-year-old Abigail Creamer and 26-year-old Nakesha Carrere. (Kuh-rear-uh)

UL Lafayette Professor, Doctor Heather Stone, is working to preserve the history of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe, which is being forced off an island in Terrebonne Parish because of coastal erosion. Stone says the Native Americans have been very helpful…
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The roughly 70 people who still live on the island will be re-located to another area of Louisiana thanks to a 48-million dollar federal grant.