One economist says most sectors of Louisiana’s economy will suffer from President Trump’s global tariffs. Dr. Loren Scott says one possible exception is Hyundai, which recently announced a 5-billion-dollar investment in a new steel plant to supply its car factories in Alabama and Georgia.
Cut 4 (09) “…25-percent tariff on it.”
Scott says another potential exception is the timber industry because of reduced competition from Canadian wood.
Three people are killed, including a five-year-old child, in a house fire in Shreveport Sunday morning. Shreveport Fire Chief Clarence Reese Junior says there were no working smoke detectors inside the home; and even though everyone inside was awake, it’s hard to escape a burning fire with no advanced warning…
Cut 8 (07) “…ever experienced.”
A 34-year-old man wanted for killing his parents is captured in California. Police arrested Joshua Brocato in Los Angeles after he allegedly murdered Marc and Priscilla Brocato inside their Amite area home last week. Tangipahoa Sheriff Gerald Sticker says they were tracking Brocato after he fled the scene…
Sticker says when Joshua Brocato was arrested on Friday, he had three guns on him and was wearing military-style attire. He says investigators do not know why he killed his parents or why he fled to California.
The first female student government president at Southern University has died. Roena Wilford died last Wednesday at the age of 74. In 1970, when Wilford was 20, she broke the glass ceiling with her election as student government president. Wilford remained a part of the university following her graduation, later becoming a physics professor.