Grambling State’s campus police chief and assistant police chief resign the day after the school’s Student Government Association president was arrested. Lincoln Parish Journal Reporter Wesley Harris says Life Makarudze is charged with third-degree rape.
While Grambling’s president says the resignations of Chief Rodney Demery and Assistant Police Chief Joshua Feliciano are unrelated, Harris says the timing is especially peculiar.
With this being National Gumbo Day, award-winning Monroe Chef Corey Bahr and Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser went on a national satellite tour to promote one of Louisiana’s most famous dishes. Bahr says he and Nungesser also used the occasion to promote Louisiana itself.
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Governor Landry says the state is making an investment in rural Louisiana that’s never been seen before. Jeff Palermo has the story.
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The U.S. Coast Guard helps rescue 42 people from a burning boat about 100 miles off the coast of Grand Isle. Some passengers were able to escape on life rafts and were brought safely to shore by nearby boats. The vessel is an 88-foot research and survey ship sailing under a Cyprus flag.