Author Archives: Jeff Palermo

At the Paris Olympics, former LSU pole vaulter and Lafayette native Mondo Duplantis, who competed for his mother's home country of Sweden, vaulted 20 feet 6 inches (6.25 meters) to break the world rec...

State Attorney General Liz Murrill is filing a brief against the lawsuit filed against the state's Ten Commandments law requiring a poster of the biblical text to be displayed in all public school cla...

Louisiana residents have a right to request information under the state constitution, and though the governor has legal avenues to deny those requests, President of Public Affairs Research Council Dr....

A new Louisiana Law allowing surgical castration of child rapists becomes active this month. Author of the legislation, Baton Rouge Senator Regina Barrow, said in her work, that she's received countle...

The school bell is about to ring but one thing that won't be ringing is a cellphone. Franklinton Senator Beth Mizell authored a bill to keep phones from becoming a distraction for both teachers and st...

Baton Rouge Congressman Garret Graves is co-leading a field hearing for Republicans in the House Natural Resources Committee on drilling and restoration in the Gulf later today. He says though some me...

The 20th Annual Great American Seafood Cookoff is Saturday and Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser said Chase Woodward of Parish Restaurant in Monroe will be representing Louisiana. The event will take place...

New laws are in effect concerning voter registration drives in Louisiana. Joel Watson with the Secretary of State's Office said those wishing to hold one must be registered with their office or the Re...

After resigning last week as Mayor of DeRidder, 42-year-old Misty Roberts was arrested today and charged with 3rd Degree Rape and Contributing to the delinquency of juveniles. State Police Sgt Ross Br...

New Absentee Voting laws for Louisiana go into effect today. Joel Watson with the Secretary of State Office said the first of three new laws (Act 380) is to deter ballot harvesting and close a loophol...