Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard is reminding his parish and surrounding areas to remember Barbara Blount. Blount went missing 10 years ago this week and Ard wants to re-visit the case. The then 58 year old went missing in the middle of the day on Friday May 2nd, 2008 and has never been seen again. Back then a dozen or so volunteers combed the woods surrounding her house in Holden, Ard says it’s time to stir the pot again.
The house committee on administration of criminal justice advanced a bill yesterday creating the crime of coercing abortion. The new crime would carry a sentence of up to five years and a five thousand dollar fine if someone threatened violence toward a woman who did not get an abortion. The measure now goes to the full house.
LSU running back Jerry Stovall will have his number 21 retired. It will be hung in Tiger Stadium in a place of honor. Jeff Palermo has the story…
A bit of an up-rising at Angola State Penitentiary yesterday as 30 inmates refused to work and three of them got into altercations with the guards. AS the inmates were lining up to go to work at 8 a.m. yesterday…two of them broke the line and attacked two officers, punching them in the head and face. According to the department of corrections order was quickly restored and the guards only had minor injuries.