A north Louisiana police officer allegedly offers a woman sexual favors in exchange for a positive police report to show her insurance company. Jeff Palermo has more
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LSU’s list of eight finalists for the job of system President leaves some unimpressed. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Winnsboro Police Lieutenant Terrance Pleasant is accused of soliciting sexual favors and money to a woman who was involved in a two-vehicle crash. State Police Trooper Michael Reichardt says the woman who received the offer told the Franklin Parish Sheriff’s Office
Reichardt says they investigated the case for several weeks and then last night 47-year-old Pleasant was booked into the Franklin Parish Jail…
Reichardt says a grand jury has indicted Pleasant on one count of public bribery and one count of abuse of office. He says police officers are not above the law…
Winnsboro Police Chief Will Pierce told the Franklin Sun Pleasant has resigned after a 15-year career with the department.
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Bossier City Police arrested a 30-year-old man for first-degree murder in connection with the shooting and vehicle crash that claimed the life of 29-year old Hannah Sheffield earlier this month. Bossier City Police spokesperson Traci Ponder says Demetrius McCoy was already in jail on other charges when investigators served him a warrant.
Sheffield was shot while driving and then crashed the vehicle into a home on April 10th. She was transported to a local hospital and later died. Ponder says McCoy is charged with first-degree murder because Sheffield was not McCoy’s intended target.
Ponder says officers work diligently to make an arrest in the case and they hope it will bring about a sense of resolution for all involved.
Bond is set at $1.2 million for the murder charge.
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The father of one of the missing SeaCor lift boat crewmembers says the vessel has been fully swept and the six remaining missing crew members were not found.
Scott Daspit, father of the missing Dylan Daspit, gave an impassioned plea for help as Good Samaritans continue search efforts after the Coast Guard ceased searching Monday.
Daspit says local mariners have determined currents have shifted outside of the original Coast Guard search zone, and they’re flying planes over the new area.
Ronnie Adams of Swamp People fame is helping the search efforts. He asked for donations to the United Cajun Navy to help pay for fuel to operate civilian planes and vessels in the new search zone.
Adams and Daspit made the comments on a Facebook Live stream.
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LSU’s list of eight finalists for the job of system President is not packed with nationally recognized stars of higher education according to some. Advocate Capitol Bureau Editor Mark Ballard says this isn’t what you would call an A-list.
There are reports that there is a “legitimate effort” to hire former LSU Chancellor and current NCAA CEO Mark Emmert for the job, despite his name not being on the finalist list.
LSU Professor and famed political consultant James Carville says given the school’s ongoing sexual misconduct scandal there’s only one woman on the list.
The one woman on the list is University of Maryland professor and former Provost Mary Ann Rankin.
Carville says the decision of who will be named President is the most consequential in the modern history of the school, and a big name would go a long way.
The two most prominent local candidates to make the final eight are Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne and UL System President Jim Henderson. Carville and Ballard made the comments on Talk Louisiana.