The Eastbank Little League World Champions are back in New Orleans today. President Trump has extended an invitation for the team to visit the White House following the 8-0 shutout in the championship game. Assistant coach Kevin Johnson says the victory hasn’t really sunk in and had an effect on the team yet.
Johnson credits a positive mental attitude for the teams success.
A Caddo Parish first-grader admits to starting a church fire in Vivian. The 7-year-old told investigators he broke a window at the Church of Christ on Saturday, came back Sunday to see the opening was patched with cardboard. State Fire Marshal Butch Browning says the child snuck into the church through that opening.
Cut 9 (09) “…whole building down.”
State Police believe an impaired driver caused a wreck that killed a motorcyclist from Vidalia early Sunday morning in Concordia Parish. Trooper Scott Moreau says 63-year-old Veria Coleman of Jonesville crossed the center line on U-S Highway 84 and hit a couple of motorcyclists. Moreau says the fatality occurred when one of the fallen motorcyclists was hit by a vehicle driving behind them
Cut 13 (08) “…the motorcycle.”
The deceased motorcyclist is identified as 22-year-old Cody McClung. There were five additional injuries and they were transported to an area hospital.
The Dean Lee Research Center outside Alexandria is now the farthest north location for sugar cane planting in the world as scientists try to test the limits of the cash crop. LSU AgCenter sugarcane specialist Ken Gravois says more and more farmers are growing interested in the crop in central Louisiana and elsewhere away from the coast.