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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Evidence of drugs

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal court in Louisiana denied pre-trial requests to exclude evidence of drug use by two welders who were killed in a 2017 paper mill explosion. The investigators found evidence of drugs on the men and they tested positive for drug use in post-mortem exams; this evidence is relevant to what caused the deadly accident.

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