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According to Jeff Asher with AH Datalytics, Through June, New Orleans has had 54 homicides–including the January 1 terror attack. That’s the fewest homicides in the city through the first six months of the year since 1970.
A boater is dead after an incident in Bayou Sengette State Park. Our partners at WWL-TV report that Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputies pulled the boater’s body from Marcello Canal around 10:30 this morning.
The first happened around 11:40 p.m. Thursday on General De Gaulle Drive near Halsey Avenue in Algiers. The second happened around 1 a.m. on Dwyer Road near Reynes Street in New Orleans East.
By: Ian Auzenne
Dr. Jennifer Avegno told WWL’s Newell Normand that Medicaid recipients will have to recertify their eligibility twice a year instead of only once. She says history shows that this added red tape could lead to Medicaid recipients being shut out.
A six-year-old child is in a New Orleans trauma unit after Slidell police say a pit bull attacked the child outside his home. It happened just before noon Monday at a home just off West Hall Avenue.
Troopers say Houston Dutruch was pulling a trailer in his pickup truck on LA 40 near Barker Road when he veered off the road, struck a culvert, and flipped.
A new law passed by Louisiana legislators, House Bill 674, allows them to dodge ethics charges more easily. That new law also allows them to accept some types of out-of-country trips from their supporters.
According to the report, Jefferson Redevelopment, Incorporated, “failed to establish fair and reasonable criteria for the lease, management, and occupancy for two commercial leasable spaces constructed with public dollars.”
“I don’t think you can come up with super, super liberal changing everything ideas,” Tulane University political science adjunct professor Rosalind Cook said to WWL’s Tommy Tucker.
University of New Orleans political science professor Ed Chervenak says he’s not surprised that Sheriff Hutson intends to qualify to run for reelection. Still, Chervenak acknowledges that Hutson is a dark horse to win the race.
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