The Jennings Police Department has charged 32-year-od Hannah Cormier with second degree murder and cruelty to juveniles for leaving her 10-month old child in a hot car for two hours while she performed a shift at Wendy’s last week. Cormier said it was a terrible accident. Jennings Police have not released details on what led to the charges.

The Council for A Better Louisiana says several indicators they keep track of show Louisiana’s wellbeing is trending downwards. Colleen Crain has more…
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57 delegates from Louisiana are in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. New Orleans Representative Mandie Landry is one of those delegates and she says she’s proud to support Democratic presidential presumptive nominee Kamala Harris and her campaign promises…
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Governor Jeff Landry held a press conference today to announce the launch of the largest broadband expansion program in the history of Louisiana. One-point-three billion dollars from the federal infrastructure law passed in 2021 will be used to expand broadband to 140-thousand locations, including 100-thousand homes. Director of the Office of Broadband Development and Connectivity Veneeth Iyengar….
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Governor Landry says the state is embarking on the largest broadband expansion program in the state’s history with the launch of Gumbo 2.0. This program will distribute one-point-three billion dollars in federal money to expand broadband. Director of the Office of Broadband Development and Connectivity Veneeth Iyengar predicts the digital divide will be eliminated in the next couple of years…
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We are in the middle of August and there are no tropical storm and hurricane threats to the Gulf of Mexico in what is expected to be a very active season. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says dusty air from the Sahara Dessert that’s over the Atlantic Ocean is helping to suppress storm activity…
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This is season has produced five named storms and the Colorado State Hurricane Forecast team is predicting 23 named storms this year.

Louisiana’s 57 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are in Chicago where they’ll formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee. New Orleans Congressman Troy Carter says there is an electricity in Chicago as every walk of life is attending the D-N-C…
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President Joe Biden will speak tonight.

Marketwatch-dot-com has ranked Louisiana number one for the highest auto insurance rates in the country. Louisiana House Speaker Phillip DeVillier says…
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Devillier expects several meetings will take place this year to come up with an auto insurance reform agenda that can be voted on during a possible special session early next year.

The Jennings Police Department is charging the mother of a ten-month old child that was left in a hot car for an hour and a half last week with second-degree murder and one count of cruelty to juveniles. Thirty-two-year-old Hannah Faith Cormier was arrested yesterday. Details on what led to the charges are expected to be discussed during a press conference today held by Jennings Police Chief Danny Semmes.

New Orleans Representative Mandie Landry and many other Democrats from Louisiana and across the country are in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. Landry says she supported President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, but says she’s more hopeful about the current nominee Vice President Kamala Harris…
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During a campaign rally this past weekend in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump accused the vice president of being a communist and fascist.

Governor Jeff Landry is holding a press conference in the next hour to announce the launch of Gumbo 2.0 which will use one-point-three billion dollars in federal money to bring high-speed internet to areas still lacking it. Marksville Representative Daryl Deshotel has been a big proponent of such an effort…
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Senator Bill Cassidy says GUMBO 2.0 will create 8,000 to 10,000 new jobs, increase the state’s GDP by $1.3 billion, and generate $2 to 3 billion in new revenue for Louisiana companies.

Marketwatch-dot-com has ranked Louisiana number one for the highest auto insurance rates in the country. Louisiana House Speaker Phillip DeVillier says…
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Devillier expects several meetings will take place this year to come up with an auto insurance reform agenda.

Governor Jeff Landry will hold a press conference at 11 AM today to announce the launch of Gumbo 2.0 which will put into action 1.3 million dollars in federal money to expand broadband access to 100-thousand homes, most of those in rural parishes. Marksville Representative Daryl Deshotel says Gumbo 2.0 expands on what’s already been done with Gumbo 1.0…
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Gumbo 2.0 is also expected to create between eight to ten thousand jobs.

The Council for a Better Louisiana says 16 of the 35 indicators they use to measure well-being in Louisiana are trending downward. CABL President Barry Erwin says several of those indicators deal with the economy and healthcare…
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Population loss and outmigration are a continuing problem, but the state’s violent crime rate and prison recidivism showed improvement.

57 delegates from Louisiana are in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. New Orleans Representative Mandie Landry is one of those delegates and she says she’s proud to support Democratic presidential presumptive nominee Kamala Harris and her campaign promises…
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A top initiative for lawmakers heading into 2025 is figuring out a way to lower auto insurance rates. Several Louisiana legislators were upset Governor Landry vetoed a bill in the last regular session that could have lowered judgements awarded to plaintiffs in a car crash. Landry says he was looking out for the consumer. House Speaker Phillip Devillier says the vetoing of that bill brought awareness to the insurance crisis…
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New Orleans Representative Mandie Landry is among the 57 delegates from Louisiana in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. Jeanne Burns has the story.
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Severe weather last night has resulted in power outages across the ArkLaMiss and into central Louisiana. Entergy Louisiana is reporting 43-hundred customers without power. Neville High School in Monroe and Northwood High School in Rapides Parish are closed today because of the power outage.

The Council for A Better Louisiana (CABL, pronounced cable) says the state is making progress on less than half of the 35 indicators for wellbeing. CABL president Barry Erwin says one problem area is health and wellness…
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Erwin says the economy is also struggling. Quality of Louisiana roads and air quality are other indicators trending downward in CABL’s Louisiana Fact Book.

State lawmakers are looking for ways to reduce auto insurance rates after Marketwatch.com crowned Louisiana with the highest full-coverage car insurance rates in the country. House Speaker Phillip DeVillier says legislators are trying to figure out why Louisiana is an outlier in auto insurance rates…
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Devillier says several different legislative committees will hold monthly hearings for the rest of the year and a special session on insurance is possible early next year.

Governor Jeff Landry is holding a press conference today to launch GUMBO 2.0, bringing high-speed broadband internet access to the entire state.
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Marketwatch-dot-com has ranked Louisiana number one for the highest auto insurance rates in the country. Louisiana House Speaker Phillip DeVillier says…
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Devillier expects several meetings will take place this year to come up with an auto insurance reform agenda.

The Council for a Better Louisiana believes the Bayou State is making strides in public education…
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But CABL president Barry Erwin says kindergarten readiness and high school graduation rates are two areas in education showing a downward trend.

The Democratic National Convention gets underway today in Chicago and there are five-thousand Democratic delegates there to approve the nominees for president and vice president, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. New Orleans Representative Mandie Landry is a delegate and says Walz is relatable to Americans…
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Walz is scheduled to give his acceptance speech on Wednesday night.