A new week begins, and the top story remains the historic indictment against New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell. Federal prosecutors allege Cantrell used her out-of-state trips as a guise to be with her bodyguard Jeffrey Vappie romantically. Vappie was indicted last summer on wire fraud charges, accused of filing fraudulent payroll documents and making false statements about his relationship with the mayor. Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino is surprised the indictment against Cantrell didn’t come sooner…
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says because there have been fewer accidents since 2024, auto insurers have been lowering insurance rates.
Cut 6 (06) “…we’re seeing”
Temple says it’s only about a two-percent decline on average statewide, but that’s better than the double digit increases we saw in 2022 and 2023.
All Aboard! You can now take the train from New Orleans to Mobile, Alabama and back.
Cut 3 (34) “…I’m Andre Champagne.”
Crazy story out of Calcasieu Parish as State Police say two people were injured after multiple crashes occurred on I-10 near Vinton when 37-year-old Matthew Vincent of Vinton hijacked a construction crane early Saturday morning. L-S-P say Vincent drove his vehicle off the roadway and then jumped into the crane and manipulated the crane boom over the interstate causing four crashes.