A Baton Rouge man who killed a woman in a high-speed wreck last summer after he says God told him to kill himself is found not guilty by reason of insanity. 19-year-old Jack Jordan’s attorney, James Manasseh, says it’s the definition of a tragedy and one no one saw coming from Jordan who was described as a good student on his way to college.
Stephanie Payne was idling at a Baton Rouge intersection on July 22nd when Jordan slammed his vehicle into hers at over 90 miles per hour.
There’s the potential for two hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico next week. State Climatologist Barry Keim says one of the storms is expected to enter the Gulf on Sunday after moving over the Yucatan Penisula. Keim says the official forecast track calls for this system to develop into a hurricane as it approaches the Louisiana-Texas coastline
Colleges and universities will publicly report on-campus COVID-19 case data each week with the total weekly tally of cases appearing on the state’s COVID-19 dashboard. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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The state reports nearly 1100 new COVID-19 cases today, Fatalities increase by 50. Hospitalizations decrease by 36 to 1051, with 172 patients on ventilators, down by 6.