Three arrests have been made in the shooting death of 20-year-old Steven Harris, the former Southern University student who was reported missing on July 17th when he didn’t return for a custody hearing for his one-and-a-half-year-old son. His body was found in Mississippi days later. West Feliciana Parish Sheriff Brian Spillman says they’ve arrested the mother of his son, 21-year-old Allyah Martin, along with 20-year-old Calajia (Cah-lie-ah) Jack (F) and 21-year-old Derek Terrell Hollins, charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Spillman says the three are accused of luring him to a party but taking him to Wilkinson County, where he expects the three will soon be charged with Harris’s murder.
Phase 2 of the state’s SUN Bucks program begins this week. It’s a program that provides a one-time payment of 120-dollars to low-income families who can use the money to help pay for groceries when children are out of school for the summer months. DCFS Economic Stability Director Timothy Jenkins says EBT cards will be sent in waves over the next few weeks…
The US Senate Health Committee has voted 16-4 to subpoena the CEO of Steward Health, Dr. Richard de la Torra. Committee Co-Chair Senator Bill Cassidy says they are investigating what led to Steward’s bankruptcy which is severely impacting care at hospitals across the country including West Monroe’s Glenwood Regional Medical Center.
Talk of a special session next month so that lawmakers can vote to hold a constitutional convention…is dead. Lapolitics.com publisher Jeremy Alford says legislative leaders announced today there are no plans to reconvene in Baton Rouge anytime soon.
Alford says Senate leaders have shown no interest in holding a constitutional convention this year.