LEAP Test scores for 2017-2018 are in. Jeff Palermo has the results.
Louisiana’s Republicans US Senators are impressed with President Donald Trump’s nomination for the US Supreme Court. DC-based federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh is widely considered a consistently conservative jurist. Senator John Kennedy says Kavanaugh has a good resume and a positive judicial history, but he’s holding his final judgment until he gets a chance to question the nominee in Congress.
A 3 AM traffic stop today in Baton Rouge resulted in gunfire involving a Louisiana State Police trooper. Troop A spokesperson Bryan Lee says the Trooper pulled over the vehicle on Perkins Road when during the course of the traffic stop, a passenger in the vehicle became noncompliant.
cut 9 (03) “…firing their weapon.”
Lee says detectives from the State Police Bureau of Investigations are looking into why the stop escalated to the point that it did.
A 75 year old Boyce resident now has a nice stack of cash after claiming a lottery ticket matching all five numbers with the Powerball’s June 23rd drawing. Louisiana Lottery spokesperson Dustin Annison says this serves as a reminder that luck could be in anyone’s favor with the drawings.
Cut 14 (04) “…one ticket to win.”
75-year-old Glenn Feazell won one million dollars, and after taxes, he takes home a cool $710K.