Former Governor Edwin Edwards is back home after a series of routine tests at LSU-Health Shreveport. Edwards biographer Leo Honeycutt says Edwards was in Shreveport over the weekend for scheduled tests, it was not an emergency. He says even though the 93-year-old former governor routinely gets pneumonia in the fall he was recently hospitalized twice in Baton Rouge.
A block party of hundreds in Crowley ends in tragedy after gunfire erupts while police were dispersing the event Sunday. Crowley Police Chief Jimmy Broussard says the unauthorized gathering was reported by concerned neighbors just after midnight Sunday and while police arrived to break it up two were fatally shot and another injured. Broussard says the party was a bad idea…
Work has begun on a 55-million-dollar restoration of the North Breton (Brett-on) Island wildlife sanctuary, a vital brown pelican habitat just east of the Plaquemines Parish. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesperson Taylor Pool says much of the funding for the project comes from Deepwater Horizon Spill settlement money and they hope to have the project completed by spring, but…
The project was first approved for construction in 2014.
State Health Officer Dr. Jimmy Guidry is retiring this week after 24 years in the position. Guidry began his career with the state as medical director for the Acadiana Region in 1990 and then became state health officer in 1996. Guidry says he’s most proud of how the department assists with disasters.