Republican Tim Temple will be Lousiaina’s next insurance commissioner. Temple’s lone challenger on the October 14th ballot, Rich Weaver, has dropped out of the race. Temple has spent 20 years in the insurance business and will replace the retiring Jim Donelon in January.

On his monthly call-in radio show, Governor Edwards discussed the Louisiana Pardon Board’s decision to schedule hearings to review clemency applications from 20 different death row inmates.
Cut 1 (33) “….I’m Brooke Thorington.”

Recent research from LSU Demographer Tim Slack found that three in four Louisiana parishes saw more deaths than births from 2020 to 2022. Slack says overall the state’s population declined by 67,000 during that time period…
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Some of the parishes where deaths outnumber births by more than ten-percent…Webster, Morehouse, Winn, Franklin, LaSalle, Iberville and Pointe Coupee.

72-year-old Hamid Ghassemi, an ex-car dealer in Baton Rouge and Lafayette, faces life in prison after a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder after he hired three men to kill his ex-wife in 2015 so he would not have to pay her a one million dollar divorce settlement. East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore says a proper verdict was rendered
Cut 13 (09) “…his life.”
Ghassemi paid ten-thousand dollars the three men to kill his wife, who was found dead in a wooded area from a gunshot wound in the spring of 2016.