US Senator David Vitter has picked up the endorsement of fellow Republican Lafayette Congressman Charles Boustany in this year’s governor’s race. UL-Lafayette Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says being endorsed by a sitting congressman is a good thing…:
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Vitter is one of three Republicans eyeing the state’s highest elected office.

State Police say they’ve arrested a guard at a mental facility in East Feliciana Parish on charges related to the escape of an inmate who was being held on murder charges and remains at large. Spokeswoman Melissa Matey says they interviewed several employees at the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health Hospital where prisoner Lorenza Conner was being held..:
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Webb is charged with Malfeasance in Office. Matey says Conner got out of a DHH transport vehicle in Orleans Parish and there is currently a $3500 reward being offered for his capture.

Opelousas Senator Elbert Guillory wants Louisiana residents to vote on whether an unborn child should have legal rights at the moment of conception. Scott Carwile has the story…:
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The Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s office says they’ve arrested a man on domestic violence charges after his wife reported she was headbutted by her husband. They say the victim told cops Jason Edward Banks of West Monroe was drunk when he got mad at her over money then shoved her down, pulled her up by the air and headbutted her. He was arrested without incident.