Coach Will Wade is set to meet with LSU and NCAA officials today for the first time since he was suspended in the wake of an FBI wiretap scandal…
Cut 1 (31) “I’m Matt Doyle.”

An arrest report shows 21-year-old Holden Matthews of Opelousas left behind a trail of evidence that led authorities to arresting him in connection with fires at three historically black Baptist churches in St. Landry Parish. The key piece of evidence was a red gas can found at one of the crime scenes.

Governor John Bel Edwards and Republican gubernatorial candidate and Congressman Ralph Abraham faced off in a forum put on by the Public Affairs Research Council. Edwards made the case the state is in a better position today than when he took office over three years ago. But Abraham criticized the governor for raising taxes and growing government…
cut 14 (09) “”….over and over again”
The other gubernatorial candidate, Eddie Rispone, did not attend.

A Baton Rouge judge has issued a bench warrant for prominent New Orleans attorneyu Martin Regan for failing to appear at multiple court dates for his client, Albert Jermaine Franklin Junior, who is facing a manslaughter charge in the hit and run death of Zachary firefighter and reserve police officer Christopher Lawton. Regan eventually appeared and was fined one-hundred dollars. Regan believes Judge Beau Higginbotham mishandled the situation
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