A Louisiana law requiring eyebrow threaders to get an esthetician’s license is raising eyebrows and a lawsuit from the Institute of Justice. Halen Doughty has more…
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A Lafayette man faces a first-degree murder charge for allegedly strangling his ex-girlfriend to death. Emelie Gunn has more…
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The ACLU of Louisiana is taking legal action in an attempt to get Social Security survivor benefits for a man after his husband died. Jeff Palermo has more…
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Eyebrow threaders in Louisiana are raising more than their eyebrows over a 2010 law requiring them to have an esthetician’s license. The Institute for Justice has filed a lawsuit to get the law tossed out. Attorney Meagan Forbes says this law forces threaders to spend as much as $13-thousand completing 750 hours of cosmetology training and taking licensing exams. But Forbes says cosmetology schools don’t teach anything about threading.
Threading is a method of pulling twisted thread across the skin to remove eyebrow hair. Forbes says experienced threaders are losing their jobs because of this law. She says salons are having to hire licensed estheticians and then teach them how to thread.
Executive Director of the Louisiana Board of Cosmetology, Steve Young, says threading falls under the cosmetology law. He says there is always a health concern with any kind of hair removal.
Young advises people who go to salons to be careful and make sure their cosmetologist is licensed.
A similar licensing law was overturned in Texas last year.
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A Lafayette man has been arrested and charged with first degree murder in the death of his ex-girlfriend. Lafayette Police Cpl. Paul Mouton says investigators have determined 33-year-old Jonathan Aubrey went to the home of 37-year-old Sheree Patin Williams on Sunday and killed her…
Mouton says Williams had obtained a Protective Order against Aubrey earlier in the year and it was still in effect when she died. He says a witness put Aubrey at the residence.
Williams body was found on Monday morning. Aubury was arrested Monday night for Violation of a Protective order. The charges were upgraded to 1st degree murder. Mouton says it’s tough when a victim follows the rules and obtains a protective order and terrible things still happen…
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A Louisiana man is fighting to receive survivor benefits after his husband died. Marjorie Esman with the ACLU of Louisiana says William Conley passed away in February of 2015, and his husband Gerald Beem has been trying to get social security benefits ever since.
Esman says the couple got married in California in 2014, before same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide. She says even though gay marriage was not legal in Louisiana at the time, the marriage should still be recognized.
The ACLU of Louisiana is taking legal action with an Administrative Law Judge of the Social Security Administration in Lafayette and a hearing on the matter is scheduled for tomorrow. Gene Mills with the Louisiana Family Forum says he doesn’t see them winning this case, because gay marriages were not recognized in Louisiana at the time of his death.
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Shreveport police are searching for a suspect who vandalized and broke into the office of State Representative Barbara Norton. Norton says the outside of her office was vandalized last week, then someone broke into it on Sunday. She says whoever broke in, also changed one of the locks at her office.
Police say notes were taped to the front door and scribbled on the glass itself on Wednesday. Norton says after Sunday’s break-in, messages were left throughout the office with the name of someone who works at the courthouse, the word “taxes,” and what appeared to be an address.
This is the second time in less than a year that Norton’s office has been broken into. Norton says her office will remain closed until the damage to the office has been repaired and the investigation is complete.
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The start of what could be a special football season for the LSU Tigers begins today as the players report for Fall Camp. The Bayou Bengals are coming off a 9-and-3 season. College football expert Phil Steele predicts LSU will be one of four playoff teams at the end of the regular season. Steele says new defensive coordinator Dave Aranda should make LSU’s defense one of the best in the country
Steele also says LSU’s offensive line is one of the best in the country. He says the receiving corp has two NFL caliber players in Travin Dural and Malachi Dupre and the backfield, led by Leonard Fournette, is as good as anyone. He believes returning starter Brandon Harris has the talent to get the job done at quarterback…
Steele says LSU is loaded this season. He says the key will be getting above average play out of the quarterback position….