The Justice Department is suing the State of Louisiana and the Louisiana Department of Corrections, claiming that the state is keeping prisoners in custody after they have completed their sentences. Lydia Wright, associate director of civil litigation at the Promise of Justice Initiative, says a years-long investigatio...

State Police are investigating a fatal police shooting in Hammond on Saturday night. Authorities say a Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's deputy fatally shot 48-year-old Timothy Douglas of Ponchatoula during a foot pursuit. Trooper Marc Gremillion says the deputy was trying to apprehend Douglas who allegedly was driving a sto...

Senator John Kennedy is hailing the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act. The act eliminates two provisions that reduced the Social Security benefits of people who worked in the public sector. Senator Kennedy said good riddance to them. "These two provisions, the windfall elimination provision and the gover...

The Saints are in Green Bay tonight. New Orleans rookie quarterback Spencer Rattler will make his fourth start of the season. Rattler made three starts in October and was sacked 14 times, but showed more poise coming off the bench last week. Rattler says when started two months ago, starting center Eirk McCoy was injur...

More than 1 in 4 Louisiana third graders scored far below state reading targets on a fall assessment, according to recent data. About 27% scored "well below" and 19% scored below expectations, meaning nearly half failed to meet literacy benchmarks. Under a new law, schools must create reading improvement plan...

Louisiana is on a winning streak of sorts in job growth. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Louisiana added 4,000 non-farm jobs last month and more than 20,000 non-farm jobs in the last year. "We've seen 44 consecutive months with an over the year gain in our seasonally adjusted non-farm employment data ...

The Louisiana Department of Health is prohibiting workers from promoting seasonal vaccines like flu, COVID and mpox. That includes advertising, promoting on social media, giving media interviews and holding vaccine events. Rosemary Westwood broke the story for NPR; she says health professionals she's talked to are conc...

Many Americans are missing out on credit card rewards, according to a recent Bankrate survey. About 40-percent of U.S. adults lack a rewards credit card, and 23-percent of rewards cardholders didn't redeem rewards in the past year. Bankrate Senior Analyst Ted Rossman says many people are missing out. "Maybe becaus...

Civil rights organizations are urging school districts not to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms starting January 1st as required by a new state law. "As we stand here today, the law is unconstitutional," says Alanah Odoms, ACLU Louisiana executive director. "And so I would really urge all districts...

In the largest fentanyl bust in Livingston Parish history, four individuals were arrested, and over 100-thousand doses of fentanyl were seized following a multi-agency investigation with Homeland Security Investigation and DEA. The operation began with the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office investigating a drug traffic...