In his monthly call in radio show, Governor John Bel Edwards didn’t add much to the news last week that the Louisiana Pardon Board has scheduled to hear some of the clemency applications from the 56 death row inmates looking to have their death sentences commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The hearings begin in October and Edwards says it usually takes a week or two after it goes before the board, before he receives them…
cut 5 (06) “….a decision”
Edwards opposes the death penalty and there’s a push for death row inmates to have their sentences commuted before he leaves office in January.

Wildfires continue to plague Sabine and Grant parishes and State Climatologist Barry Keim says there is no significant chance for rain the rest of this week…
cut 12 (03) “…rain bad”
There’s the possibility of tropical development in the Gulf of Mexico early next week, which could bring us some rain.

Several schools from Bossier City to Baton Rouge to Houma and New Orleans received bomb threats yesterday. Several schools were placed on lockdown and in Baton Rouge, Police Chief Murphy Paul, says they sent bomb squads and K-9 units to these schools searching for possible explosives…
cut 23 (09) “…appropriate”
The investigation continues.

A used car dealer in Baton Rouge and Lafayette has been found guilty of first degree murder for hiring three men to kill his ex-wife in April of 2015. 72-year-old Hamid Ghassemi will be formally sentenced to life in prison in September. East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore…
cut 15 (10) “….outstanding job”