The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness and the Department of Children and Family Services is sending a Human Services Branch Team of three to Florida for a fifteen day deployment. Director of Emergency Preparedness for DCFS, Ricky Montet, says the team is assisting in mass care as well as volunteer and donation management.
Cut 12 (09) “…experience from Louisiana.”
Baton Rouge Congressman Garret Graves has started a GoFundMe to cover the 100,000 dollar fine the SEC slapped on LSU, after fans stormed the field following the Tigers upset win over Georgia. The account has raised over 15,000 dollars to date. Graves ssays the safety implications of forcing people to stay in the stands potentially outweighed those of letting them take the field, and says it’s not like President F. King Alexander led the charge on to the field either…
Governor John Bel Edwards, along with other state and local leaders, cut the ribbon this morning on the long awaited I-49–I-220 connector in Shreveport. DOTD spokesperson Erin Buchanan says the governor believes this interchange will be a game changer for northwest Louisiana…
Cut 3 (12) “…economic development.”
Baton Rouge Police believe a Texas death row inmate fatally shot 19- year-old LSU student Kassie Federer in her apartment in 1999. Investigators say DNA has linked 49-year old Travis Green to the crime. Sgt. Don Coppola says the breakthrough came from the Louisiana crime lab from evidence collected at the scene.
Cut 6 (10) “…unrelated homicide.”
Green is on death row in Texas for killing another 19-year-old female in Houston, just days before Federer was shot.