U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, along with Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, introduces legislation that addresses the issues in the nation’s care and treatment of mental health. Studies indicate that one in five American adults have a serious form of mental illness and Cassidy says everyone is impacted in some way…

cut 12 (07) “serious mental illness”

Cassidy says he has been working on this bill for about four years, but has only recently been able to introduce it to Congress–less than two weeks after the Lafayette theater shooting.

State legislators across Louisiana are mourning the death of Baton Rouge State Representative Alfred Williams. Williams was elected to the State House in 2011 after serving on the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board. Representative Pat Smith of Baton Rouge, who also served on the School Board with Williams, says this loss will leave a big hole not only in the legislature, but in his district as well…

cut 10 (05) “just priceless”

Williams passed away Tuesday night following complications related to a recent knee surgery.

State police say a Prairieville teenager, who was pushing a friend’s disabled SUV out of the roadway in Ascension Parish, was struck and killed by a suspected drunk driver. Trooper Bryan Lee says the emergency flashers on the vehicle 18-year-old Richard Billingsley, Jr. was pushing were activated when 41-year-old J Thomas Bowers of Baton Rouge crashed into it…

cut 4 (03) “at the scene”

Bowers is booked on multiple charges, including vehicular homicide and second offense DWI.

Governor Bobby Jindal will not participate in tomorrow night’s televised Republican presidential debate. Jindal did not poll well enough in recent national surveys to be among the ten candidates invited to the Fox News forum. Jindal will be able to participate in a debate featuring secondary candidates Thursday afternoon.