By Wes Muller | Staff Writer
A weather system that might strengthen into Tropical Storm Arthur is expected to impact parts of Louisiana today. Be sure to keep track of local flooding, which poses the biggest threat.
A medical gas mask, like the one pictured here, is used to administer nitrogen during executions. A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against Alabama carrying out what would be the state’s seventh execution using nitrogen. (Getty Images)
By Greg LaRose
After the U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to intervene in an Alabama case, the effort to end executions by nitrogen hypoxia could shift to Louisiana, where the state has already carried out the death penalty once using the controversial method.
By Julie O’Donoghue
Louisiana school leaders remain confused about the details of Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to shift $168 million from school district operations into teacher stipends. A statement the governor released over his social media accounts has added to the bewilderment.
WATCH & LEARN
Reporter Elise Plunk explains how and why the state has changed its policy for handling the spread of chronic wasting disease, a.k.a “zombie deer disease.”
LSU Chancellor Jim Dalton announces a research partnership with Hyundai. (LSU photo)
By Piper Hutchinson
LSU and Hyundai have entered into a decade-long research partnership related to the automaker’s $5.8 billion steel mill being built in Ascension Parish. The project has been met with backlash from residents who have raised concerns about the environmental impact to the majority Black community of Modeste where it’s being built.
The white supremacist and Nazi reference “1488” was among the racist messages spray-painted on the Central home of Carolyn Howard earlier this month. (Photo courtesy WAFB-TV)
COMMENTARY
By Andrea Hagan
Caroline Morrison-Howard has lived on Littlefield Avenue in Central for decades, inside the Plantation Way subdivision. That neighborhood name choice has taken on new significance.
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