Louisiana State Police says the police chief in the town of Rosepine is under arrest for allegedly stalking his estranged wife. Sgt. James Anderson says 49-year-old Chief James Parrot is accused of stalking his wife and another man and calling her employer requesting that she be fired. He says Parrott picked up the malfeasance in office charge for allegedly using department equipment to extend the crime…

cut 5 (06) “male companion”

Anderson says once the suspect bonded out on a $1000 bond in Vernon Parish he was also booked in Beauregard Parish on a $15,000 bond for the same charges.

State Police say the man who drove through a house in Schriever and caused the death of a 2-year-old baby in June was drunk at the time according to blood-alcohol tests. Trooper Evan Harrell says a routine toxicology sample was taken from 20-year-old Tony Milligan…

cut 13 (06) “the legal limit”

Milligan remains jailed on vehicular homicide and several other charges.

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 US 90 will remain open during construction…

cut 7 (12) “as possible”

Estimated construction time is three years.

Forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center have updated their hurricane season forecast and now say there is an increased chance it will be below-normal. Lead seasonal forecaster Gerry Bell says conditions across the tropical Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea are incredibly unfavorable for hurricane development…

cut 10 (11) “major hurricanes”

He says the outlook issued today calls for a 70% chance of a below normal season.