Progressive and Louisiana Farm Bureau are dropping their auto insurance rates this year following a rate decrease earlier in the year from the state’s largest insurer, State Farm. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says the three insurers combined account for just over 50 percent of all Louisiana auto policies…
State Farm owns a million policies, Farm Bureau 220,000 and Progressive 175,000.
Three people are dead after an alleged drunk driver slammed into a vehicle that had broken down in the middle of US Highway 90B last night in Harvey. State Police trooper Monroe Dillon says the three victims were on the upper level of the overpass and standing near the broken-down car when the collision occurred.
A Houma woman is sentenced to 23 years in prison for stabbing another woman to death in a dispute stemming from relationships going sour. The altercation took place in July 2017 resulting in Miranda Gilley being charged with second-degree murder. Prosecutors say Gilley had invited the victim, 24-year-old Jessica McGehee, over to her apartment to fight. Gilley claimed she acted in self-defense. Terrebonne Parish DA Chris Erny says the jury had several options on the charges, but ultimately decided to go with a lesser charge of manslaughter, which carries a maximum 40-year sentence.