Three people are dead and two others are in critical condition after an incident at a home in Terrytown. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s office is investigating they say the deceased victims are a female adult and two children. Very few other details are known at this time.

There is another delay in the state’s efforts to produce medical marijuana. Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain is the regulator of the medical marijuana program and he claims LSU and its private grower,GB Sciences. violated law by moving its cannabis plants from a temporary pod to the main growing facility. Political anayst Bernie Pinsonat says a court hearing will be needed to solve this latest dispute…
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Strain says LSU needed to agree to memorandum of understanding before expanding the operation. LSU questions whether Strain has the authority to stop the move.

A St. Martinville man and his 25-year-old girlfriend from New Iberia have been booked on child abuse and hate crime charges. St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s office Major Ginny Higgin says Tony Domingue physically abused a one-year-old child and the infant’s mother Jorretta Carrere witnessed it…
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Higgins says Domingue and Carrere are also facing a hate crime charge, but she did not go into details of the specifics of the crime.

A public reading of the Bible from cover to cover has started in the town square of St. Martinville. he annual 100 hour Bible Marathon will run through Sunday. Father Michael Champagne (Shom-pine) says the Pope held a similiar event once.
Cut 7 (08) “Evangelicals, Baptists, Episcopalians.”
This event drew over three-thousand people last year.