Former Governor Edwin Edwards is back home after a routine exam over the weekend at LSU Health-Shreveport. Edwards Biographer Leo Honeycutt says Edwards took a private jet on Saturday for a checkup and is back home now. Despite his age and recent bouts of pneumonia, Honeycutt is amazed at Edwards’s resilience and believes he’s a living testament that laughter really is the best medicine.
Work has begun on a 54.9 million dollar restoration of the North Breton Island wildlife sanctuary, a vital brown pelican habitat just east of the Plaquemines Parish. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesperson Taylor Pool says the project will add 400 acres of land to the third-largest colony for waterbirds in the state…
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.
Two are dead and one injured after a shooting at a block party in Crowley early Sunday morning. Crowley Police Chief Jimmy Broussard says police received a call about a crowd of hundreds who had gathered for an unannounced block party and were causing a commotion. The shooters are still on the loose and Broussard says police could use some help finding them…
Broussard says the shooting started as police began breaking up the party.