Shreveport police say a woman is accused of throwing two of her own children off the Cross Lake Bridge late Friday morning. Eureka Black is charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder. Emergency responders found one of the children dead in the water, while a second was rescued and is expected to recover from non-life threatening injuries. Black was arrested near Waskom after fleeing the scene.
LSU AgCenter experts say the state’s agriculture industry suffered at least 584-million dollars in damages as a result of Hurricane Ida. LSU AgCenter economist Kurt Guidry says timber was hit the hardest as a total of 168-thousand acres of trees were affected costing the industry more than 300-million dollars
Guidry says about 50-percent of the total estimated volume of damaged timber is in Tangipahoa Parish.
There were several tense exchanges during a Joint Medicaid Oversite Committee meeting Friday where River Ridge Senator Kirk Talbot questioned Louisiana Department of Health Attorney Stephen Russo about nursing home evacuation plans. The meeting came weeks after hundreds of nursing home residents were crammed into a Tangipahoa Parish warehouse resulting in several deaths
Committee members stated after the tragic evacuation to the ill-equipped warehouse in Independence will need to be addressed with legislation.
Abbeville Senator Bob Henssgens…
Organizations including Schoolplies are working to help kids get back in school after Hurricane Ida’s devastation in parishes that include Terrebonne and Lafourche. CEO Allie Casey says hundreds of school supply kits will be given away this Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Fletcher Technical Community College along LA-311. Casey says work to put the kits together with everything from pencils to notebooks and erasers for the first day of school has been made less easy without power to their office.