Saints and Pelicans owner Tom Benson’s dirty laundry is being aired to fans as a day after he announces he’s decided to leave the franchises to his wife instead of his kids, the former heirs sue claiming it was a decision made out of incompetence. Dr. Michelle Moore is a clinical psychologist at the LSU Health Sciences Center. She says a family battle like this is happens all the time…:
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The 87-year-old Benson responded to the lawsuit saying the allegations that he’s incapacitated are false and he intends to fight them every step of the way.

A Houma man, whose two young children died in a house fire last March, has been sentenced to two years in prison. 22-year-old Romell Welsh Sr. accepted the sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of negligent homicide in the deaths of a 2 year old and 1 year old.

Multiple sources have reported that employees of General Electric’s plant in Pineville have been told that the facility is closing with the manufacturing jobs transferring to Jacksonville, Florida. The valve plant employs about 300 people. Pineville Mayor Clarence Fields says they haven’t gotten any official report from GE…:
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Pineville has seen several facilities close in recent years, including Cotton Brothers Bakery and International Paper.

Now that the New Orleans City Council has approved a ban on smoking in bars and casinos, so could we see a similar law passed for the entire state? West Monroe Representative Frank Hoffman says says a public smoking ban in New Orleans could convince legislators that it’s time to do it statewide..
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Hoffman says a similar ordinance went into effect in Ouachita Parish last January and it’s been well received by bar owners.