WEST BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – A raffle has been created to help support the family of a pregnant woman killed during a storm on May 13, 2024. Kristin Browning, 31, was killed after a tree fell on her home during the severe weather that hit last month. State officials said she was nine months pregnant, and the […]
A suspect in connection to a girl’s murder in Bastrop, Louisiana was arrested in Arizona by the U.S. Marshals Service, according to police officials in Bastrop. According to a post made by the Bastrop Police Department’s Facebook, officers were called to a home in Louisiana after a body was discovered in the woods just behind […]
One of the most unique looking houses — both inside and out — has landed on the real estate market in New Orleans for $2.2 million. Trust us when we say you have never seen anything like it. Exterior The elongated Louisiana home sports four bedrooms and 4.5-plus bathrooms and runs more than 4,100 square […]
Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Louisiana dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 1,855 in the week ending June 22, down from 2,020 the week before, the Labor Department said. U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 233,000 last […]
Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Louisiana dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 1,855 in the week ending June 22, down from 2,020 the week before, the Labor Department said. U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 233,000 last […]
Twitter: @deborahmoffattLast week, Louisiana ushered in a new, controversial law requiring a version of the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms. As you could expect, the law is already facing a lawsuit from parents, and heavy criticism online.— deborah moffatt (@deborahmoffatt) June 24, 2024Whatever happened to complete separation of church and […]
STORY: Louisiana was sued on Monday over its new law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms in the state. The complaint said displaying the Ten Commandments violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Jeff Sims, a pastor with children in Louisiana public schools, was among the nine families […]
Nine Louisiana families filed a federal lawsuit Monday against their state’s education department and their local school boards challenging the constitutionality of a radical new law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms. The lawsuit was unveiled less than a week after Louisiana’s Gov. Jeff Landry put pen to paper and […]
Civil liberties groups have filed a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s new law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom. Opponents of the measure, which was signed into law by Republican governor Jeff Landry last week, had long warned of an impending lawsuit to fight the legislation that they say is […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit Monday challenging Louisiana’s new law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom. Opponents of the measure, which was signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry last week, had long warned of an impending lawsuit to fight the […]
Spend enough time listening to politicians, and eventually, one of them will tell you the truth. “I can’t wait to be sued,” Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry declared four days before signing a law last week mandating that all public school classrooms – from kindergarten to college – display a Protestant Christian version of the Ten […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesday. While the punishment of surgical castration is used in other countries that are known for […]