By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A New York doctor was indicted by a grand jury in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Friday for prescribing an abortion pill that was taken by a teenager there. Margaret Carpenter and her practice,

Interstate 10 in the Baton Rouge metro area reopened to both eastbound and westbound traffic Thursday afternoon, the Department of Transportation and Development announced.

Louisiana DOTD officials have closed a large part of interstate 10 due to the icy conditions on the road. DOTD says that I-10 is closed in both directions from the Louisiana-Texas state line to Baton Rouge.

Interstate 10 from the Louisiana-Texas state line to as far east as Sorrento or Gramercy could be fully open to traffic in both directions at some point Thursday afternoon, Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Joe Donahue said.

A New York doctor has been indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country.

The case opens a new front in the battle between states that ban abortion and states that support providing abortion anywhere in the country.

The LDH reported one winter weather-related death in the state this year—a 65-year-old man in Rapides Parish who died due to hypothermia—and advised people to stay inside during the extreme cold and to seek shelter if unhoused.

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Colorado-based Third Futures Schools will take over IDEA Bridge, and New Orleans-based Audubon Schools will assume control of IDEA Innovation. They will operate the schools for the 2025-26 school year.

A significant portion of I-10 is closed in both directions in Louisiana west of Baton Rouge to the Texas border.

A New York doctor has been indicted for allegedly sending abortion pills to a teenager in Louisiana, in what could be the first time a provider has faced criminal charges for mailing the medication since the rollback of abortion rights in the US.

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