Calcasieu Parish District Attorney John DeRosier has filed a death warrant for convicted child rapist and murderer Jason Reeves. Reeves was sentenced to death in 2004 for the brutal murder of four-year-old Mary Jean Thigpen, who was taken from her Moss Bluff home in 2001.

But It’s been nine years since the state executed a prisoner, and Louisiana has been unable to find a pharma company willing to supply the chemicals needed for lethal injections to be carried out. DeRosier says between that and legal delays…
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Reeves latest appeal was denied by the U-S Supreme Court last month.

A statewide search is underway for 39-year-old Oshay Booker, who is accused of fatally shotting his step-father, Ronald Cloud Goff, who is the former mayor of Winnfield. Winn Sheriff Cranford Jordan says Booker was last seen driving a forest green Honda Pliot. He’s considered armed and dangerous.

Governor Edwards awards 25 million for a road project in Monroe after a controversy erupted over the legislature not including northeast Louisiana in a 700-million-dollar road improvement plan. Monroe Representative Jay Morris says when the plan to use BP oil settlement money to fund projects was proposed, politicians from every corner of the state wanted a piece of the action.
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But northeast Louisiana was left out, so the governor’s office came up with 25-million dollars to fund the Kansas Lane – Garret Road connector I-20 Interchange.

The Saints have completed organized offseason workouts. Quarterback Drew Brees missed over a week because he had to testify in a courtroom in San Diego against a California jeweler who allegedly defrauded his family of six-point-seven-million dollars…
cut 10 (11) “….it comes”
In other Saints news, the team has released former LSU and Breaux Bridge star Travin Dural.