The Police Chief in Rosepine was arrested Wednesday on stalking charges according to state police. Michelle Southern has that…:
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Forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center have updated their forecast for the 2014 Atlantic Hurricane Season and now say there is an increased chance it will be below-normal. Michelle Southern has that…:
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Louisiana State Police say the police chief in the Vernon Parish town of Rosepine is under arrest for allegedly stalking his estranged wife. Sgt James Anderson says they received the complaint about 49-year-old Chief James Parrott and began the investigation last month…:
Anderson says once the suspect bonded out on $1000 bond at Vernon Parish he was also booked in Beauregard Parish on a $15,000 bond for the same charges. He says detectives determined Parrott had trouble leaving his wife alone…:
CUT 4 (05) “following her home”
Anderson says Parrott allegedly followed his wife and another man around and also called her employer requesting that she be fired. He says Parrott picked up the malfeasance in office charge for allegedly using the police department’s equipment to extend the crime…:
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A 57-million dollar construction project is set to begin on US 90 in Lafayette Parish as crews will expand that highway from four to six lanes from Ambassador Caffery to Albertsons Parkway. State department of transportation spokesperson Deidra Druilhet says they are upgrading US 90 to interstate standards as part of a larger plan to extend I-49 South…
Estimated construction time is three years, but Druilhet says US 90 will remain open during that time…
Druilhet says once construction is completed on the one-point-six mile stretch of roadway, motorists will see less traffic congestion and the wider highway should lead to economic growth. She says precautions have been taken to limit headaches during construction, but the 40-thousand motorists who use the road daily will see some changes…
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Forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center have updated their forecast for the 2014 Atlantic Hurricane Season and now say there is an increased chance it will be below-normal. Lead seasonal forecaster Gerry Bell says the outlook issued today calls for a 70% chance of a below normal season…:
Bell says the atmospheric and oceanic conditions across the tropical Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea are incredibly unfavorable for hurricane development…:
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Bell says this outlook is for overall activity and does not apply to a landfall forecast. He encourages Gulf Coast residents to remain prepared throughout the season…:
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State Police say the man who drove through a house in Schriever and caused the death of a 2-year-old baby on June 27 was extremely drunk at the time according to blood-alcohol tests that came back this week. Trooper Evan Harrell says during the incident, 20-year-old Tony Milligan of Houma rear-ended another car then fled the scene…:
CUT 12 (09) “a two year old child”
Harrell says Milligan remains in jail on a vehicular homicide charge among many others and is being held on $300,000 bond. He says impairment was suspected at the time of the crash, but a routine toxicology sample was taken…:
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A Baton Rouge man who is accused of beating to death his 77-year-old roommate then burying him in a tomato garden was indicted Wednesday for second degree murder. The suspect is 54-year-old Douglas Studeman. East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore on the indictment…:
Moore argued Chester Oakley opened his home to the suspect earlier this year in exchange for some help around the house. Police found the victim’s bludgeoned body wrapped in bed sheets under some fresh dirt in the garden at the house. Moore says the evidence against the suspect is substantial…: