Law enforcement agencies are stepping up patrols through New Year’s Day with the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign. Louisiana Highway Safety Commission executive director Lisa Freeman says the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign is an effective one, with a dipping trend in drunk driving fatalities on the national level as well as on the state level.

Cut 5 (07) “…work to do.”

Nationally, 285 people were killed over the holidays in drunk driving-related crashes in 2018.

The House Judiciary Committee votes to send two Articles of Impeachment to the House floor for an Impeachment vote sometime next week.

Northwest Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson sits on the Committee and railed against the decision. He says the President’s actions related to Ukraine don’t meet the constitutional bar for Impeachment.

Cut 6 (10) “…exists”

New Orleans Congressman Cedric Richmond also sat on the Committee. He voted to Impeach.

Equipment to stabilize the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans will be arriving next week.

New Orleans Fire Chief Tim McConnell says the safety of the crews is the number one priority throughout the process of trying to recover the remains of those killed in the October collapse, so stabilization is crucial.

Cut 10 (06) “…pain staking process.”

After seven years at the reigns of LSU, University President F. King Alexander is stepping down.   Alexander has been selected to be the next president of Oregon State University. Council for a Better Louisiana President BarryErwin says Alexander had to make some big decisions in handling the school’s athletics.

Cut 14 (10) “…pretty high note.”

Alexander’s last day is December 31st and will be appointed at Oregon State on July 1, 2020. The institution has named Dean of the LSU Law Center Thomas Galligan as the interim successor.