State Police say an impaired driver caused a crash in St. Landry Parish that killed a woman from Sunset and her two-year-old passenger. Trooper Thomas Gossen says 48-year-old Michael Shane Guidry of Carencro suffered non-life threatening injuries, but 35-year-old Lacy Leger and the toddler in her vehicle were not as fortunate…
cut 8 (06) “…force”
Gossen says Guidry crossed the center line on a I-49 service road and hit Leger’s vehicle.

An 18-year-old Baton Rouge teenager who said God instructed him to drive his vehicle at a high rate of speed into another car, killing the person in that vehicle, is now at the state’s mental health hospital. The attorney for Jack Jordan, James Manasseh, says his client had good grades in school and no previous criminal history, but all of sudden he has a severe mental illness…
cut 12 (10) “…quite as easily”
Jordan is facing a second-degree murder charge.

Eastbank from River Ridge was victorious in an 8-0 shutout over Curaçao Sunday to win the Little League World Series. U.S. House Minority Whip and Louisiana Congressmen Steve Scalise says the team is one the state can be proud of.
Cut 3 (10) “…fun to watch.”
President Trump has invited the Louisiana team to visit the White House so he can personally congratulate them.

The Edwards administration says next year’s construction budget will include 85-million dollars in state funding for a new I-10 Calcasieu Bridge in Lake Charles. Transportation Secretary Shawn Wilson says its in response to President Trump’s promise that he made in May to replace the bridge if re-elected…
cut 13 (11) “…soon as possible”
Wilson says despite the need for a new bridge, the current bridge is still safe.