It’s National Work Zone Awareness Week and State Police are asking drivers to do their part to prevent crashes in work zones. L-S-P Superintendent Colonel Robert Hodges says work zone safety starts with the driver and a moment of inattention in a work zone can change lives forever…
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Hodges says in 2024, 13 people were killed in Louisiana in work zones, highlighting the need for increased awareness.
Governor Landry has announced First Lady Sharon Landry’s foundation, Love One Louisiana, is responding to the tragedy in Shreveport by paying for the funerals of all eight children killed in Sunday’s mass shooting. The governor says he’s thinking 0f everyone affected by Sunday’s tragedy, especially the two women who remain in critical condition after being shot during the rampage carried out by the father of seven of the eight children.
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Mandeville Senator Patrick McMath has met with Governor Landry about revamping the state’s child welfare system and dismantling the Department of Children and Family Services. Governor Landry expressed frustration last week about not being informed about McMath’s proposal before he presented it to the Senate Health and Welfare Committee. McMath says since then, he’s had a good meeting with Landry about his plan move most functions of DCFS to the Department Health and he is also proposing that the attorney general’s office would handle child support enforcement.
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Love the Boot Week got under way Saturday and goes through this Sunday. the fifth year for the initiative; Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser says more than 28-thousand volunteers will participate in over 12-hundred cleanup and beautification efforts throughout all 64 parishes. He also mentioned a new law that allows people to anonymously report people who litter. Litterers will be issued tickets. Nungesser says those citations are effective in preventing repeat occurrences of littering.