The Washington Post is reporting the White House has plans to send as many as one-thousand National Guard troops to various cities in Louisiana. Reaction to the possibility is mixed. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Officials in Terrebonne Parish have announced the arrests of two Houma men in connection with the 2015 murder of Pamela Johson. 70 year old Charles Johnson and 43 year old Shannon Robinson are both facing charges of First-Degree Murder and Solicitation for murder in the death of Johnson, who was 56 the night she was found shot to death. They’re being held in the Terrebonne Parish Detention Center without bond.
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Several Louisiana legislators have received postcards containing graphic images of a lynching. Republican State Representative Mike Bayham of Chalmette was one of the lawmakers who received the nefarious postcard.
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Bayham says the F-B-I is now investigating.
The Office of Louisiana Highway Construction has set an ambitious goal of fixing 62 small bridges in rural areas of Louisiana by end of next year. The Louisiana Legislature established this new office earlier this year and granted the new agency with emergency procurement powers. The director of this new office, Archie Chaisson, says that allows them to hire contractors faster…