Governor Landry was at his desk signing insurance related bills today. One of the bills addressed distracted driving. Landry says the bill is one of the biggest things that could be done to lower premiums.
Landry signed a reworked version of the medical transparency bill he vetoed last year.
Neither the governor nor the legislature did very well in a poll conducted just prior to the start of this year’s legislative session. Pollster Bernie Pinsonat says it showed a low number of people felt the state was heading in the right direction.
Cut 10 (11) “…they just weren’t.”
With Friday’s capture of Antoine Massey, nine of the ten escaped inmates from the May 16th Orleans Parish Jail break have been recaptured and State Police Superintendent Colonel Robert Hodges says there is a 50-thousand-dollar reward for information leading to the capture of convicted murderer Derrick Groves who is still at large.
Cut 4 (10) “…for that reward.”
A new king of Louisiana seafood is crowned. Karlos Knott will represent Louisiana in the 21st annual Great American Seafood Cook-Off in New Orleans on August 2nd. He says seafood has been a big part of his life.
Cut 14 (11) “…was always seafood.”
He was crowned at the 18th Annual Seafood Cook-off this past weekend.