A 33-year-old man is in custody in connection with the death of a two-year-old child. Authorities found Willow Rain Renteria-Molina’s body of Hornbeck in a remote area of Beauregard Parish. Vernon Sheriff Sam Craft says Rodney “Donnie” Bailey Junior is considered a person of interest as he was the last person to see the little girl alive. Bailey is reportedly not cooperating with authorities, but he is in jail on several other charges, including gun possession by a convicted felon.

A 78-year-old Shreveport woman could face the next decade behind bars for cashing Social Security checks that were mistankenly sent to a dead man for nearly three decades. Rose Marie Jackson Allen will be sentenced in September after pleading guilty to theft of government property. Allen shared a post office box with a man who died in 1986, but the government kept sending him social security checks. It’s believed Allen collected over 200-thousand dollars in illegal benefits.

Tonight’s PowerBall jackpot is a whopping $415 million, the 7th largest prize in the game’s history. Louisiana Lottery spokeswoman Kimberly Chopin says this would be one heck of a Mother’s Day present…;
CUT 9 (07) “as well”

Saints and Pelicans Owner Tom Benson has two horses in today’s Kentucky Derby. Their names are Mo Tom and Tom’s Ready. Mo Tom’s odds are 20-1, and Tom’s Ready is 30-1.

With Mother’s Day on Sunday, the Department of Health and Hospitals is urging all women to get regular health checks, including mammograms. Secretary Rebekah Gee says she lost her mother to breast cancer when she was 16 and doesn’t want others to go through the same experience. Gee says you don’t want to wait until it’s too late…
cut 3 (07) “…your doctor”