State lawmakers have learned the budget shortfall for the next fiscal year is already projected at 713 million dollars. Jeff Palermo has the story…
The extreme rainfall and heavy storms earlier in the summer that caused the Red River flooding resulted in almost 7 million dollars in damage to agriculture in Northwest Louisiana. Kurt Guidry, LSU AgCenter economist, says this is just a preliminary estimate and expects the numbers to be even higher.
The Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office says a track driver is charged with the rape of a 14-year-old girl. Commander Eric Becnel says 29-year-old Peter James Wilson III of Gretna chatted with the teenager on a smartphone app last month and planned to meet. He says after meeting up, Wilson took the girl to the Naval Air Station in Belle Chasse where he was making a delivery.
Becnel says Wilson dropped the girl off the next day at the same place they met.
Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso says this week the crime scene authorities have been looking under the I-10 bridge in relation to a body dumping case. He says they haven’t discovered any human remains but the search started after receiving reliable information that 35-year-old Gammion McCloud of Phoenix, Arizona killed someone and through them over the bridge.