Livingston Parish has produced the state’s first American Idol winner with Laine Hardy taking the top honors last night. The eighteen year old’s mother, Cindy Hardy says the family comes home tomorrow, but Laine will be staying in California for a few more weeks working on music.
Legislation to raise the gas tax to fund infrastructure projects gets shelved due to a lack of support, prompting bill author, Baton Rouge Representative Steve Carter, to request the winner of the fall gubernatorial election call a special “infrastructure” session next year. But Crowley Representative John Stefanski says his informal poll on support for any additional taxes indicated there is not much interest until the state government can prove it can handle it’s finances better.
A proposal to raise the legal age to smoke from 18 to 21-years-old barely gets out of the House Appropriations Committee. Jeff Palermo has more…
A teen driver is dead following a wreck near the St. Martin/Lafayette Parish on LA Hwy 96. State police say 17-year-old Grace Gonsoulin, who attended Catholic High in New Iberia, was killed when her Honda Accord crossed the double yellow lines into the path of eastbound traffic, colliding with a Dodge Ram. Despite being properly restrained, she died on the scene, while her two passengers, and the five people in the oncoming truck sustained moderate to serious injuries.