26-year-old Jamie Sousa of Ponchatoula and 47-year-old Dexter Schexnayder of Deridder have been arrested after an inter-agency investigation found them allegedly preying on children on social media. State Police Trooper Taylor Scrantz says during the investigation an undercover FBI agent posed as a 13-year-old online…
The Secretary of State’s Office has re-started the process of replacing the state’s current stock of 10-thousand voting machines, which are decades-old. Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin says the Office of State Procurement is accepting bids from vendors who can supply the state with new voting equipment.
Cut 3 (10) “…transparent elections”
It may take a few years for Louisiana to fully feel the impacts of the Biden Administration’s ban on new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters. Matt Doyle has the story.
The state reports 2,500 new COVID cases today and 55 additional fatalities. Approximately 397-thousand total doses to the vaccine that’s close to 58-hundred people who have completed the vaccine series of two injections.