The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office says a neighbor fatally shot a man who was attacking his girlfriend with a knife. Lieutenant Suzanne Carboni says the victim escaped her Mandeville area home through a window and frantically knocked on neighbors’ doors seeking help. She says one of the neighbors went outside to assist.
No arrests have been made so far.
The application period for the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries’ 38th enforcement academy is now open and runs through December 22nd. What’s different about this one is that this is a hybrid academy, meaning it will be open to both POST-certified police officers and non-POST-certified officers. Enforcement Division Superintendent Stephen Clark says POST-certified officers chosen will have a slightly accelerated academy when it starts in late March.
LSU moves one step closer to launching a School of Construction. College of Engineering Dean Vicki Colvin says construction is a very vital part of the U.S. economy.
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The school would build on the current construction management program, which boasts some two-thousand students. The Board of Supervisors approved it last week, sending it to the Board of Regents for a vote sometime next year.
The last of the five people indicted in February’s hazing-related killing of Southern University student and Human Jukebox member Caleb Wilson has been booked into jail. 24-year-old Jadyn Landrum and four others were indicted last week on charges ranging from manslaughter to felony hazing to obstruction of justice. Landrum is charged with principal to felony hazing; he was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Jail this morning.