Court documents filed today by the defense attorney for Matthew Naquin, the former LSU student, charged with negligent homicide, in the suspected hazing death of Maxwell Gruver, portrays Gruver as a party animal, who drank a lot and smoked marijuana, before he died in 2017. Legal analyst Tim Meche says Naquin’s lawyer is doing what he should be doing…
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The Gruver family posted on Facebook “Let the Victim shaming begin.” The trial is set for July.

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy is unsure how he will vote on a congressional measure that seeks to block President Donald Trump’s national emergency over the southern border wall.
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Cassidy says his big concern is the precedent that the national emergency sets for future presidents.

State Superintendent of Education John White is not happy the governor’s budget proposal to lawmakers does not include extra dollars to help low income families pay for early childhood expenses. White says they have a waiting list of 33-hundred families seeking assistance and the waiting list will grow to 10-thousand once a federal subsidy runs out…
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A statement from the governor’s office says Edwards has committed to giving teachers a pay raise this year and he’ll push for an increase in early childhood funding in 2020, if he’s re-elected.

There’s been a 44-percent drop in the violent crime rate in northeast Louisiana according to the U-S Department of Justice. US Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, David Joseph, credits the prosecution of 200 defendants in the past year on gun charges, more than 60 of which have been in the Monroe area…
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The state has also provided a special prosector as well.