A LaPlace woman was arrested for allegedly setting fire to a home with a child still inside.
Cut 6 (08) “…intentionally set.”
Ken Pastorick with the State Fire Marshal’s Office says because there was a working smoke detector in the house, the child was able to get out unharmed.
Eight years later, an arrest is made in the murder of a Washington Parish mother of three. Deputies arrested Scott Jordan in connection with the 2017 deadly shooting of 40-year-old Donna Arceneaux inside her home. Washington Parish Sheriff Jason Smith says this case has weighed on the community ever since that late October day that year.
Cut 3 (09) “…to its conclusion.”
Jordan is in the Washington Parish Jail on one count of second-degree murder; his bond has been set at two-million dollars.
With Governor Landry also serving as special envoy to Greenland, how does that affect his job at home? LaPolitics-dot-com publisher Jeremy Alford says while there are state laws that prohibit people from holding two offices at the state time, those refer to state positions. Thus, a volunteer role as a special envoy would not fall into that category.
Cut 11 (07) “…regard to that.”
There’s a new policy that streamlines the process for data centers and other large projects to access the energy they need, and the public service commissioner who spearheaded it is clearing up some misconceptions about it. Commissioner J.P. Coussan says it’s not a rubber stamp for utility companies to charge what they want to charge in order to expedite these big projects.