Demolition experts will use explosives to take down two heavily damaged cranes at the collapsed Hard Rock Hotel construction site in New Orleans. New Orleans Fire Chief Tim McConnell says the cranes are not stable…
Cut 4 (12) “…take this down.”
If all goes according to plan, small, controlled explosives will quickly bring the cranes down on the surrounding rubble.

A Baton Rouge Senate race will not be a three-way run-off after a recount puts Representative Franklin Foil four votes ahead of Representative Steve Carter for second place. GOP donor Lane Grigsby reportedly floated the idea that Foil should drop out of the Senate race and Grigsby would help Foil get elected as a judge. It’s left a cloud over the proceedings…
Cut 13 (08) “…for you.”
That’s former Republican U-S Senate candidate Rob Maness who says he’s leaving the Republican Party over the controversy.

Connor Croll, the Alabama student who allegedly called in a false bomb threat to the Tiger Stadium during last Saturday’s game, has been released from East Baton Rouge Parish jail on a 100,000 dollar bond. Croll has been charged with communication of false information of planned bombing on school property. Legal analyst Tim Meche expects Croll’s defense will argue the threat had no teeth…
Cut 10 (13) “…harm”
Croll reportedly told police he called in the threat to stop the game because his friend was at risk of losing money on a bet.

Two people were shot including an officer during a shooting that occurred overnight on the Grambling State campus. The search for the shooter is ongoing after he fled from the Hodby Assembly Center. Media reports say an officer responding to the scene was shot in the leg and another student was also wounded.