Violent crime in Louisiana was down three percent year to year in 2018, and the murder rate is down eight points according to new FBI crime data. Despite the good news Louisiana still leads the nation with the highest murder rate, and LSU Health New Orleans Criminologist Peter Sharf says our murder rate is roughly ten times that of New York’s. He says there’s a lot of work to be done.
Nationwide the violent crime rate was also down three percent.
A new law signed in California will allow college athletes to hire agents and make money from the use of their image, name or likeness, starting in 2023. LSU QB Joe Burrow says he believes it is a step in the right direction.
If you thought September was hot, you were not wrong. It was one for the record books. Brook Thorington has the story.
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A St. Landry Parish man is dead a week after falling out the back of a pickup truck that travelling down LA 103. 38-year-old Fredrick Freeman was in the back of the truck when for some reason he fell off the back and slammed his head on the concrete. He was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, but the injuries turned out to be too severe. Neither the driver nor Freeman is thought to have been impaired at the time.