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After hearing emotional testimony from the sibling of a child sexual abuse victim, the House Civil Law and Procedure Committee advanced legislation to make non-disclosure agreements involving child sexual abuse unenforceable. -
Under the settlement, the city will lower sales tax collection fees and eliminate property tax collection fees, practices that district lawyers argued are illegal. -
The numbers are taking on added significance after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s existing congressional map on Wednesday. -
At a press conference, lawmakers urged voters to still cast their ballots in the May 16 election despite news that the U.S. House races are not being counted. -
Gov. Jeff Landry declared a state of emergency after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the current congressional map is unconstitutional. -
In the civil rights suit, Duncan alleges that Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill engaged in a “coordinated conspiracy” to keep Duncan from taking office. -
Paraquat has been linked to Parkinson’s disease and just a sip is fatal, but tens of thousands of pounds of it are being released in the Mississippi Basin. -
The door is open for the state to redraw its congressional map and eliminate one of its majority Black districts. -
Outgoing Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson has been indicted by a special grand jury in New Orleans in connection with a major jailbreak at the Orleans Parish jail last May. -
The United States Supreme Court’s ruling Wednesday morning (April 29) that Louisiana's 2024 election map was unconstitutional leaves the door open for Louisiana to redraw its congressional map and eliminate one of its majority Black districts.
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