The Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Gretna truck driver accused of the rape of a 14-year-old girl. Eric Gill reports…:
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The Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget projects the budget shortfall for next fiscal year will be $713 million dollars. The $25 billion dollar budget approved in the last session for the fiscal year that began July 1st contains millions in one time financing that is not projected to be available in the 2016-2017 budget — thus the shortfall.

Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso says the crime scene authorities had been searching under the I-10 bridge this week was related to a body dumping case. He says no human remains were found, but the search began after a credible informant told authorities that 35-year-old Gammion McCloud of Phoenix Arizona killed someone then tossed them over the bridge…:
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He says since it’s been two years, the body could have been washed away. McCloud, who was arrested in Oregon this week on unrelated charges, will be extradited back to Calcasieu where he is wanted for rape. Mancuso says this investigation is not over.