A Baton Rouge teen who alleged intentionally rammed his car into a woman’s vehicle at an intersection in Baton Rouge, killing her, reportedly told police “God instructed him to kill himself” before he made the fatal decision. State Trooper Taylor Scrantz says that led to a 2nd-degree murder charge for 18-year-old Jack Jordan.
The crash killed 51-year-old Stephanie Payne of Greenwell Springs.
LSU players are celebrating the school’s new 25-million-dollar football operations center, but some are raising concerns about it’s optics while the campus library continues to fall apart. LSU Professor of Mass Communication Bob Mann.
The football operations center was paid for with private dollars.
Methanex announces plans to spend $1.3 billion to construct a third methanol plant in Ascension Parish and the three plants combined in Geismar would make it one of the world’s largest methanol complexes. Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson says the state is very attractive to the needs of the company.
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Methanex is based in Canada.
Gubernatorial candidate Eddie Rispone is repping his pro-Trump background in his first statewide TV ad of the campaign. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat expects the Trump focused ads to run for about three weeks before the Baton Rouge construction magnate tells voters more about his background as a businessman…
Pinsonat says the strategy is also similar to successful gubernatorial efforts from Bobby Jindal and Mike Foster.