The Louisiana Survey finds there’s strong and broad support to reform the state’s criminal justice system in the upcoming legislative session. But the LSU survey found a big difference between blacks and whites over the fairness of the criminal justice system. LSU professor Doctor Michael Henderson says 71-percent of black respondents say the system is not fair, only 44-percent of white respondents agree…
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Shreveport restaurant owner Mark Colby was sentenced to life in prison today for killing his girlfriend and business partner Angela Godley. Caddo Assistant D-A Brittney Green says the 2014 slaying rocked the community, because Godley was well known and a former cardiac care nurse….
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The two were parnters in the Noble Savage Tavern.

Governor Edwards is supporting legislation that seeks to tackle the state’s opioid addiction program. River Ridge Representative Kirk Talbot is co-authoring a bill that would limit first time opioid prescriptions for acute pain to a seven day supply. Talbot also has a bill that’s similar to a Texas law that he says has done a great job of getting people back to work and off opiod medications…..
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Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy called called Sunday’s storms “a Gustav-level event.” But Stephen Carboni with the National Weather Service in Lake Charles says the event is not over as there are homes and businesses in historically flood-prone areas that should monitor river forecasts…
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Carboni says the good news is that the forecast for the next several days looks dry.