Law enforcement provided an update today on Saturday’s incident at the Lao New Year parade where a suspected drunk driver plowed into a crowd of people, injuring 18 individuals. Many people of Asian descendent were at the festival, but Iberia Parish Sheriff Tommy Romero says that’s not what led to 57-year-old Todd Landry of Jeanerette hitting several people with his vehicle…
Landry remains in jail on a 247-thousand bond.
A public service commissioner is speaking out against Constitutional Amendment 3 that would give teachers a permanent two-thousand-dollar pay raise. The raises would be funded in part through the retirement of three trust funds. Commissioner Foster Campbell says one of them would be the Educational Excellence Fund, which he helped create as a state senator in 1999.
Cut 3 (08) “…students in Louisiana.”
Small businesses in Louisiana and across the country are having trouble finding skilled employees to fill job openings. Leah Long, the state director of the National Federation of Independent Business, says 27% of Louisiana small businesses have openings for skilled workers. That’s why it’s important for the state to invest in the workforce.
Nationally, 32-percent of small business owners reported openings they could not fill.
LSU was upset by Bethune-Cookman on the baseball diamond last night as the Wildcats scored five runs in the seventh inning to defeat the Tigers ten to seven. In that seventh inning, LSU pitchers walked two hitters, hit two others and there was a critical error leading to two runs. Tigers center fielder Derek Curiel…
LSU is 22-12 and six of their losses have come against nonconference opponents. LSU is at Ole Miss this weekend for an SEC series that will begin on Friday night.