Department of Children and Family Services is touring the bayou state, holding open community conversations with DCFS Secretary Marketa Garner Walters, addressing issues relating to child welfare and poverty. Walters visits Lafayette today at 2 PM at Immaculate Heart of Mary. Walters says she wants to discuss the new law that extends foster care in some cases to the age of 21….
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A man is charged with his fourth DWI after allegedly driving around gas pumps flaunting a gun in the air. Keithon J. Dixon of Baton Rouge was arrested for his reckless driving around Sunday at 2:30 AM. Dixon allegedly had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech while joyriding his 2017 convertible mustang, and authorities say he admitted to drinking a half pint of vodka before the incident. Rouge Police Sergeant Don Coppola says luckily no one was injured…
Senator Bill Cassidy is back from his trip to Central America where he visited with the Guatemalan President, and officials from the Mexican government to discuss trade, immigration, and drug trafficking. Cassidy says he talked drug trafficking with Mexico’s newly elected Obrador Administration, where both agreed a new tactic was needed to fight the cartels.
The Advocate Reports that LSU will not allow recently departed quarterback Justin McMillan to transfer to another SEC school or a school that LSU will play this season or next year. McMillan was reportedly under the assumption he could transfer to any school as a graduate transfer. But the NCAA’s new transfer rule that prevents schools from blocking student-athletes from transferring to a certain school doesn’t go into effect until October 15th.