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Bill aimed at out-of-state abortion pill prescribers passes Pregnant women can sue doctors who provide drugs, perform procedure BY ALYSE PFEIL Staff writer
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The Fair Grounds season includes the Louisiana Derby and the Risen Star Stakes, both high-purse races that are part of the ‘Road to the Kentucky Derby’ series.
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Hilton New Orleans Hotel sold for $47M BY ANTHONY McAULEY Staff writer
The Hilton New Orleans Hotel, which started life in the 1920s as the Masonic Temple building at 333 St. Charles Ave., has been sold for $47 million, owner Sunstone Hotel Investors said on Monday. The building, one of the first skyscrapers to be built in New Orleans, was initially converted into a hotel in 1982 and later operated as the Kimpton Hotel Monaco until it was damaged after Hurricane Katrina. It was reopened in 2007 as the Hilton New Orleans and bought by Sunstone, a California-based real estate investment PHOTO PROVIDED By HILTON HOTELS trust, in 2013 for $59.35 million. The Hilton Hotel is located at 333 St. Charles Ave. in a building that had been a The company said in a news release that it chose to sell the hotel rather than Masonic Temple. make any further investment in it. The company’s chief executive, Brian Giglia, vestment that will be needed to keep the said in the statement. “The value we can said it made more sense to use the sale hotel competitive. realize through the repurchase of our proceeds to buy back Sunstone’s shares “Knowing that the environment is unä See HOTEL, page 9A than to make the “cyclical renovation” in- certain and can change quickly,” Giglia
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A bill that aims to stop out-of-state doctors from prescribing abortion drugs like mifepristone or misoprostol to people in Louisiana passed the Legislature on Tuesday. Called the “Justice for Victims of Abortion Drug Dealers Act,” the legislation would allow pregnant women to sue those who illegally give them drugs for an abortion or try to perform an abortion on them. Rep. Julie Emerson, RCarencro, a co-sponsor of Emerson the bill, said in Louisiana it’s already a crime to provide drugs to someone for an illegal abortion, but the state is having a hard time holding medical providers outside of the state criminally liable for sending the medication to people here. House Bill 575 creates an avenue to hold
Proposed law could speed up executions Bill headed to Landry’s desk for signature
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Louisiana may be able to speed up executions after the Legislature passed a bill to overhaul post-conviction relief, a mechanism where inmates seek to have their sentences shortened or overturned. While debate over the bill centered around capital cases, House Bill 675 by state Rep. Brian Glorioso, R-Slidell, would affect far more than Louisiana’s 55 death row inmates. It would apply to any state prisoner seeking post-conviction relief. The bill sets new, tighter deadlines for judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys handling post-conviction relief petitions.
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