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1 day ago | kalb.com | Piper Hutchinson |Greg LaRose

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) – On his first day on the job Monday, Louisiana Department of Health Secretary Bruce Greenstein announced the launch of two initiatives – one to target Medicaid fraud and another to reduce the number of overdose deaths during pregnancy. The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is developing an artificial intelligence and data analysis tool the Louisiana Department of Health will use to fight “fraud, waste and abuse,” state officials said.

2 days ago | kalb.com | Piper Hutchinson

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) - The Louisiana Legislature is considering several proposals that would create tax breaks and new revenue streams for college athletes and their sports programs. If passed in their current state, the proposals would exempt college athletes from income taxes on their name, image and likeness (NIL) deals and would create a new fund to give tax dollars to NCAA Division I athletics programs like LSU’s.

5 days ago | kalb.com | Debra Dolan

(Gray News) – The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a rough landing at a Puerto Rican airport. After a hard landing on its first attempt, the Frontier Airlines plane coming from Orlando landed safely Tuesday night. Video shared online by passenger Melani González Wharton shows people applauding when the plane finally touched down. “We are alive by miracle! We just landed in the worst way in the world. What a horrible experience.

6 days ago | kalb.com | Colin Vedros

CATAHOULA PARISH, La. (KALB) - On April 14th, a grand jury in Catahoula Parish indicted Thomas Steven Sanders for the first-degree murder of 12-year-old Lexis Roberts of Las Vegas in 2010. Since 2014 and prior to December 2024, Sanders was on federal death row. He was first sentenced to death by a jury at the Alexandria Federal Courthouse in 2014 after he admitted to kidnapping Lexis Roberts in Arizona and killing her in Catahoula Parish.

6 days ago | kalb.com | Colin Vedros

ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - A peaceful protest happened in Alexandria on April 17 outside the Alexandria Housing Authority’s Office. Peaceful protesters are challenging Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy, Rapides District Attorney Philip Terrell and other public entities to ”do the right thing” and help stop the violence in the city. Families of gun violence victims, along with Police Juror Jay Scott and City Councilman Malcolm Larvadain, stood in solidarity, wanting to see a safer city.