The 2019 LSU baseball season finished with a heartbreaking 5-4 loss in 12 innings to Florida State. Star third baseman Drew Mendoza singled home the winning run. Tigers Coach Paul Mainieri could have walked Mendoza, but decided to go after the Seminoles veteran number three-hitter…
Cut 13 (13) “on the ball.”
The loss ends the career of Antoine Duplantis as LSU’s all-time hits king finishes with 359 hits.

The death penalty is still in play in Louisiana, despite an effort in the legislative session to abolish lethal injections. New Iberia Representative Terry Landry says he’s encouraged about the effort’s momentum…
cut 5 (11) “….their mind”
Landry believes a bill to abolish the death penalty will pass next year.

Governor Edwards is expected to sign into law a measure that requires teenagers to be at least 16-years-old before they get married. The bill sailed through the Senate but ran into opposition in the House after influential religious groups raised concerns about barring teens who get pregnant from having to have a child out of wedlock. New Orleans Representative Stephanie Hilferty says that opposition prompted a compromise…
Cut 12 (11) “…16.”
Kids aged 16 and 17 will need judicial approval and parental consent before getting married.

Iberville Sheriff Brett Stassi has fired one of his deputies, who was accused of recording on his cellphone a woman having sex with a one-year-old child. Shaderick Jones has been charged with principal to first-degree rape and child porn. Authorities say there could be more victims. The woman in the videotape was also arrested and told detectives that she committed the act in exchange for not getting arrested on a traffic ticket charge.