There was a deadly shooting at a concert in Bunkie over the weekend. It happened at the Magnolia on Main shortly after 1:30 Sunday morning with hundreds gathered. One concertgoer was killed, and another suffered life-threatening injuries. A third was grazed by a bullet in the elbow. Authorities are searching for the shooters after they fled the scene.
17-year-olds can now be tried as adults in Louisiana since a new law came into effect in April. Richard Webster did a study on this for Veritae News and says based on the study, a relatively small percentage of crimes were violent in nature.
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Webster notes that with teens being tried in adult court for non-violent crimes, that information is public, and that could prevent them from landing jobs or getting public assistance.
Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm, just two weeks after Hurricane Francine hit southern Louisiana as a Category 2. Will these storms impact the insurance landscape in Louisiana? Sean Richardson has more.
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Hurricane Milton is now a Category Five storm with maximum sustained winds of 160 miles an hour is barreling toward Florida and LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says we may not be done with major storms this year.