US Senator David Vitter has picked up the endorsement of fellow Republican Lafayette Congressman Charles Boustany in this year’s governor’s race. Vitter is one of three Republicans eyeing the job. UL-Lafayette Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says being endorsed by a sitting congressman is a good thing…
CUT 3 (05) “means something”
Vitter has also picked up the endorsment of Lafayette City-Parish President Joey Durel.

A guard at a mental facility in East Feliciana Parish has been arrested in connection with the escape of a man charged with murder. State Trooper Melissa Matey says this arrest came after some fact-finding from other employees at the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health Hospital housing prisoner Lorenza Connor…
CUT 8 (12) Q: ‘to his escape’
Webb has been charged with Malfeasance in Office.
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It’s another record year for the Louisiana tourism industry, as the visitor numbers went over 27 million in 2014, which was a five percent increase over the previous year. Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne says, it’s fairly obvious the reasons why…
cut 14 (10) “major conventions”
There was $11.2 billion dollars in total visitor spending in 2014, and Dardenne says they had more than a 38 to one return on investment for state funding in marketing.

A Pineville man is dead following an incident with Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Deputies inside a residence this morning. Reports say the man threatened another person inside with a gun, then threatened to do harm to himself. After talking withe deputies for almost an hour, the subject returned with a firearm; pointing it at the officers. When he refused to lower the weapon, he was shot in the chest, and pronounced dead at the scene. the investigation continues.