St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Randy Smith says one of his deputies is recovering after he was shot in the back by an armed 13-year-old burglary suspect. Deputy Kenneth Doby was patrolling an area in Waldheim after getting a call of a burglary and he observed a teenager walking in the area who fired his weapon when the deputy got out of his vehicle. Doby is expected to make a full recovery and the 13-year-old is in custody.

US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm toured the Bayou State Tuesday to see how the state is a major contributor to energy. Brooke Thorington has more.
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Legislation to remove two Confederate-themed holidays continues to advance at the state legislature. New Orleans Representative Matthew Williard’s bill removes Confederate Memorial Day and General Robert E Lee Day as official state holidays. The two holidays have not been observed for years but Minden Senator Robert Mills doesn’t see a reason to remove them…
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But Williard says the two holidays pay homage to what he believes is the darkest time in our nation’s history. The bill is heading to the Senate floor for more discussion.

Monroe Police arrested seven inmates at the Swanson Correctional Center for Youth after a large fight broke out inside one of the dorms during the overnight hours that caused 35-thousand dollars worth of damage. Monroe Police Sergeant Mike Fendall says during the fight, they barricaded the doors preventing officers from entering…
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Fendall says with assistance from Ouachita Parish Sheriff deputies they gained control of the dorm and seven inmates were taken into custody.

New Orleans Representative Matthew Williard says he’s receiving death threats over his legislation to remove Robert E Lee Day and Confederate Memorial Day as legal holidays in Louisiana. Willard says authorities are investigating a voice mail his office received…
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Williard made that statement minutes before a Senate committee approved his legislation, sending the House-backed measure to the Senate floor.

The House Criminal Justice Committee has voted for a bill that would result in violent 17-year-old offenders being housed at adult prisons instead of a juvenile detention center. Ouachita Parish Senator Stewart Cathey says the problem of teens committing serious crimes knows no political favoritism, with Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry and a Democrat DA supporting the bill…
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U-S Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm toured a Strategic Petroleum Reserve site in Iberville Parish yesterday. Congressman Troy Carter accompanied the energy secretary as there’s been a lot of focus on petroleum reserve sites with record-high prices at the pump. Carter says the tour was illuminating…
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Louisiana families interested in helping Ukraine refugees can now do so through the “Uniting Ukraine” program. David Aguillard with Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Baton Rouge says sponsors will help families or individuals acclimate to the community and teach them things like how to shop at Walmart, how to enroll in school, or make doctor appointments.
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For more information go to U-S-C-I-S-dot-gov-slash ukraine.

St. Tammany Parish Sheriff deputy Kenneth Doby is hospitalized after he was shot overnight while patrolling in the area of Highway 21 and Highway 1083 in Waldheim. Sheriff Randy Smith says a 13-year-old male suspect is in custody. Deputy Kenneth Doby was in the area after a call came in for a suspected burglary at a business.

The Senate-approved bill that would allow the state to put violent 17-year-old criminals in with adult prisoners clears another legislative hurdle. More from Kevin Gallagher…:
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U-S Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm visited a Strategic Petroleum Reserve site in Iberville Parish and General Electric’s wind blade testing plant at the Michoud facility in New Orleans east. Louisiana Congressman Troy Carter says Louisiana is poised to be a leader in wind turbine energy with the plant strategically located near major ports and just offshore from a proposed wind farm in the Gulf.
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A new way to repair a torn A-C-L in a person’s knee is being performed at Ochsner medical facilities in south Louisiana. Instead of using a tendon from the patient’s own body to replace the torn ligament, Ochsner Baton Rouge Medical Director of Sports Medicine, Doctor Jeremy Burnham is using bioengineered material that provides an environment for the torn ligament ends to reattach themselves…
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The new procedure is still in clinical trials.

A Senate-passed bill to roll back Louisiana’s 2016 “Raise the age” law clears another legislative hurdle. Monroe Senator Stewart Cathey’s bill won approval from the House Criminal Justice Committee. He says his legislation would only apply to youthful offenders who commit violent crimes, like murder, assault, battery rape and armed robbery…:
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The “Raise the Age” law passed in 2016; keeps 17-year-old offenders from being imprisoned with adult inmates. Cathey’s bill calls for an evaluation of 17-year-old offenders to see if they need to be in juvenile detention, or sent to the adult population.

An innovative new surgery for repairing a torn anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, has come to Louisiana. Ochsner Baton Rouge Medical Director of Sports Medicine, Dr. Jeremy Burnham says this method heals the ligament rather than replacing it.
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Burnham is the first surgeon in the region to utilize the Bridge-Enhanced ACL Repair Implant, known as BEAR.

US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was in the Bayou State yesterday to see how Louisiana is a major contributor to energy.
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The Fairness in Women’s Sports Act is on its way to the Governor’s desk, but will Governor Edwards sign it this year after he vetoed it last year. Brooke Thorington has more…
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The Louisiana House has approved a bill that would prohibit the use of a handheld cell phone while driving. The vote was 55-to-38 in favor. It goes to the Senate, but there are just under two weeks to go in the legislative session.

The Louisiana Workforce Commission reports the state’s not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for April was a record low three-point-five percent as the state has added 200-thousand jobs over the last two years…
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Over the last year, the leisure and hospitality industry added 16 thousand jobs and the number of construction jobs is up by nearly seven thousand.

If you’ve been out in the garden or the backyard in South Louisiana, you may have seen a worm with a hammerhead. Hammerhead worms make themselves at home where they can find high temperatures and humidity. LSU AgCenter entomologist Nathan Lord says they are an unwelcome sight…
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The problem is that the hammerhead worm is a predator, and its prey is the earthworm.

The Louisiana Workforce Commission reports unemployment in Louisiana has reached a record low. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows the not-seasonally-adjusted jobless rate for April 2022 at 3.5-percent. LWC Secretary Ava Cates says that’s the lowest rate ever recorded and their data goes back to 1976 …:
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Louisiana has gained over 200-thousand jobs in seasonally adjusted non-farm employment since April 2020.

The Fairness in Women’s Sports Act is on its way to the Governor’s desk after the Senate voted 32-6 to concur with a House amendment. The bill which bans transgender females from competing in female sports was vetoed by Governor John Bel Edwards last year. Political Analyst Bernie Pinsonat on what’s next.
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The bill which bans transgender females from playing female sports in K-12 and college competitions was amended to remove the ban from intramural sports.

Louisiana will elect a new governor in 18 months and we still do not have a single declared candidate. It’s expected Attorney General Jeff Landry and Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser will run. Congressman Garret Graves and Senator Bill Cassidy are possibilities and political analyst Ron Faucheux says if Senator John Kennedy got in that would be a real surprise…
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Kennedy is up for re-election this year.

LSU Ag Center entomologist Nathan Lord says based on the reports he’s getting there’s an increase in hammerhead worms, especially in south Louisiana. He says the head of a hammerhead worm is shaped like a hammerhead and they are not good for your garden, because they prey on earthworms. Lord says they are not harmful to humans but…
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For the second straight year, the governor will have to decide whether to veto a bill that prohibits transgender women and girls from competing in organized female sports. John Bel Edwards vetoed the bill last year and it’s heading to his desk again after the Senate gave final legislative approval yesterday. The bill was amended to remove the ban from intramural sports. Political Analyst Pinsonat says Edwards has said the amendment is significant.
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The Louisiana Workforce Commission reports the state has added 200-thousand jobs since April 2020, which was the height of the economic shutdown due to COVID. L-W-C Secretary Ava Cates says in the last year, the leisure and hospitality industry gained more than 16-thousand jobs…
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The state’s not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of three-point-five percent history is the lowest in recorded history which dates back to 1976.

With about a year & half until the next governor’s race in Louisiana, where are all the declared candidates? Kevin Gallagher has that…:
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U-S Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is in Louisiana to take a tour of the G-E wind turbine blade test center at Michoud in New Orleans East. Secretary Granholm will also tour the Strategic Petroleum Reserve site at Bayou Choctaw which is located in Iberville Parish, 12 miles southwest of Baton Rouge.

Heading into their series against Vanderbilt, LSU baseball was up against the ropes. So the Tigers came out swinging and delivered a three-game knockout of the Commodores, scoring 42 runs. Dylan Crews, the newly crowned SEC Co-Player of the Year says that the Tigers understood the assignment and came through at the right time.
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Crews, who leads the SEC in home runs, runs scored, and ranks in the top four in nearly every major offensive category, is the first Tiger to be named Player of the Year since Raph Rhymes in 2012.

ULM faces Georgia State in the Sun Belt Tournament at noon today in Montgomery, Alabama. It’s a single-elimination game with the winner advancing to the double-elimination bracket. The Warhawks took two of three from the Panthers this season and have won 10 of the last 13 meetings.

The Ragin Cajuns are the four-seed in the Sun Belt Tournament. U-L Lafayette will play South Alabama on Wednesday afternoon after taking two of three from Little Rock last weekend.

Louisiana Tech is the two seed in the Conference USA Tournament and will play Charlotte on Wednesday afternoon. The Bulldogs just two took of three from the 49ers.

Louisiana Tech forward Kenneth Lofton Junior says he’s 100-percent committed to staying in the NBA draft. The Port Arthur, Texas native participated last week at the NBA G-League Elite Camp and has received an invitation to the NBA Combine.