1:30 LRN Newscast August 3

The state corrections department says the state is seeing a positive impact of the criminal justice reforms that went into place one year ago. They say the reduction of prisoners saved the state 12-million dollars and the new parole system has seen the total supervised population fall by 7,000, because offenders are now able to work towards certain goals to get out the system. But Louisiana District Attorney Association President Ricky Babin says he’s not exactly happy about the shortened parole periods.
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It is now legal in Louisiana to rescue a pet or a child from a locked, parked vehicle, by smashing a window to get in. The new law provides criminal and civil protection for good Samaritans who take action to save a life. The law does not state that it has to be a hot or cold day to take action.

Curators opened up a 105-year-old time capsule found underneath a recently removed confederate monument in New Orleans. Kevin Barnhart on what was inside….
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A Rouses’ grocery store clerk in Baton Rouge has received over 54-thousand dollars in donations as a result of a kind act. Jordan Taylor was putting up bottled orange juice in a cooler, when an autistic 17-year-old asked if he could help. The father of the autistic teenager made a video of it and the video has gone viral. A Go fund me account was set up to help Taylor go to college and donations are rolling in.