The Louisiana Department of Corrections says the first year of the criminal justice reforms is having a positive impact. D-O-C says the reforms have saved 12 million dollars. On November 1st, 19-hundred offenders were released and 120 of them are back in custody. But President of the Louisiana District Attorney’s Association Ricky Babin says he’s learned five of the prisoners released have been charged with murder, so just because someone is labeled nonviolent by the system, doesn’t mean they aren’t potentially dangerous.
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Babin says the state needs to continue to monitor the criminal justice reforms and nothing can be celebrated at this point.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has cited a Ville Platte man for shooting a whooping crane on July 25th. The wounded crane was found near a crawfish pond in Evangeline Parish. 52-year-old Gilvin Aucoin faces a fine of up to 50-thousand dollars and one year in jail.

If you see a pet or a child locked in a hot car, it’s now legal to break a window open to save them. Matt Doyle has more.
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Curators are examing the contents from a 105-year-old time capsule found in New Orleans by workers who removed a pedestel where the statue of Confederate General P-G-T Beauregard once stood. Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser was on hand for the opening of the box and officials found paper money, phots, letters and Confederate and US flags…
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