A 33-year-old Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office maintenance worker, Sterling Williams, was arrested for aiding the escape of 10 inmates from the Orleans Justice Center, as announced by the Attorney General Liz Murrill.
Williams confessed to turning off the water in a cell as instructed by an inmate, enabling the group to escape through a hole behind a toilet. Murrill says he was identified after reviewing footage and interviewing employees who had directly interacted with inmates.
Two people who died in separate accidents hours apart Friday night were a couple and had a child. 25-year-old Alexis Lee died when her car traveling north went off Hwy 67 hitting a culvert and overturning around 2:00 a.m. It happened in East Baton Rouge Parish. Nearly 2 hours later 35-year-old John Collins traveling south ran off Hwy 67 striking a tree after missing a curve. Some believe Collins was traveling to check on Lee.
One of Governor Landry’s priority bills advances to the Senate. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The 2025 Louisiana Survey polled one thousand Louisiana adults and it shows that once again, the economy is the top concern. The director of the Louisiana Survey, Doctor Michael Henderson of LSU says that’s a shift from a year ago, when crime was the top priority.