A 31-year-old man accused of killing a State Trooper and a woman in separate shootings on Saturday in Ascension parish is in police custody. It’s believed Matthew Mire also shot at another Trooper and shot and injured two people inside a Livingston Parish home during a multiple-parish shooting rampage. Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre says they don’t have a motive…
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The Trooper fatally shot has been identified as Adam Gaubert, who was found dead in his patrol car in Prairieville.

The LSU Tigers are now 3-and-3 after suffering a blowout loss in Kentucky. Quarterback Max Johnson is not happy with the team’s record…
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The Tigers host 20th ranked Florida this Saturday and LSU is a double-digit underdog.

Bob Dean has filed paperwork in order to get his seven nursing home licenses back that were revoked by the state health department. Dean evacuated 800 nursing home patients to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish, where conditions deteriorated in the days after Hurricane Ida. Dean’s attorney John McLindon says what happened afterward happened in other hurricane-impacted areas…
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The state Health Department says 12 people who were evacuated to the warehouse died, five of the deaths have been ruled storm-related.

The field of contenders for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican John Kennedy is expected to get a little more crowded. LA Politics-dot-com publisher Jeremy Alford says there’s talk that Democrat Gary Chambers could announce his intentions.
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Chambers nearly made the run-off in a Congressional race won by Troy Carter. Political newcomer and commercial pilot, Luke Mixon of Baton Rouge, announced last week his decision to run against Kennedy next year.