Category Archives: Politics & Government
Higgins nixes Senate run
Congressman Clay Higgins has announced that he will not run for Senator Bill Cassidy's seat in 2026, despite speculation and encouragement from supporters. Citing polls showing Republican interest in ...
Mar 20, 2025 Congressman Clay Higgins (R) represents Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District
Landry, Scalise pitch New Orleans to NHL
Another pitch on behalf of New Orleans to the NHL - this time, it's Governor Landry and Congressman Steve Scalise meeting with league officials about a potential expansion team to the Big Easy. The Me...
Mar 20, 2025
Baton Rouge Police arrest suspect in afternoon shooting of Our Lady of the Lake Hospital employee
Baton Rouge Police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of a hospital worker who was gunned down after leaving work. Lt. L'Jean McKneely says 60-year-old Roland Domino shot 58-year-old Patricia J...
Mar 20, 2025 Roland Domino (courtesy of Baton Rouge Police Department)
State audit finds Louisiana Medicaid recipients to be underserved with regard to prenatal care
A state audit has found that prenatal care for Medicaid recipients in Louisiana is going in the wrong direction. Chris Magee, the data analytics manager at the Legislative Auditor's Office, says the a...
Mar 19, 2025
Woman who was last seen with a Kanas City sports reporter found dead in Kenner now faces a murder charge, an accomplice also arrested
48-year-old Danette Colbert now faces a second-degree murder charge in connection with the death of Adan Manzano, the 27-year-old sports reporter from Kansas City found dead in a Kenner hotel room dur...
Mar 19, 2025 Danette Colbert (L) and Rickey White (R) - (courtesy of Kenner Police Department)
Louisiana executes Hoffman; state's first execution in 15 years
Louisiana has executed its first death row inmate in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman, 48, was executed Tuesday evening by nitrogen hypoxia after the state and U.S. supreme courts declined to intervene. "Mr. ...
Mar 19, 2025 Attorney General Liz Murrill and Corrections Secretary Gary Westhoff hold up a wedding picture of Molly Elliott during a news conference following the execution of Elliott's killer, Jessie Hoffman.
Photo credit: Andrew Greenstein
Governor Jeff Landry has no plans to stop Jessie Hoffman's execution, the first in the state in 15 years
Louisiana is preparing to execute its first death row inmate in 15 years tonight as Jessie Hoffman is set to die for the 1996 kidnapping, raping and murder of Molly Elliot. It will be the state's firs...
Mar 18, 2025
Morgan City police arrest woman after discovering 22 dead cats in her home, including 14 stuffed inside a freezer
Morgan City Police arrest a 71-year-old woman on animal cruelty charges after finding several dead cats inside her home. Captain John Schaff says officers came across the scene while conducting a welf...
Mar 18, 2025 Sheri Hite (courtesy of Morgan City Police Department)
Louisiana Poll shows many against moving to a closed primary
A recent poll by JMC Analytics and Polling, commissioned by Unite America, found that Louisiana voters overwhelmingly favor the open primary system across party lines. JMC Founder John Couvillon says ...
Mar 18, 2025
Louisiana judge halts Hoffman execution pending Tuesday a.m. hearing
It's off again -- for now. The execution of Jessie Hoffman has once again been put on hold. Monday afternoon, 19th Judicial District Court Judge Chip Moore issued an injunction that ordered the halt p...
Mar 17, 2025 Jessie Hoffman Jr.
Photo credit: Louisiana Department of Corrections
