A St. Tammany Parish jury deliberated for about five hours before coming back with a guilty verdict against former St. Tammany Sheriff Jack Strain who now faces a mandatory life sentence for raping and molesting multiple children. Strain has been found guilty of four counts of aggravated rape, two counts of aggravated incest and one count each of sexual battery and indecent behavior with a juvenile.

A Grand Jury indicts a St. Mary Parish man with 1st-Degree Murder, for burning his girlfriend and young nephew to death last summer. 49-year-old Derwin Hamilton faces life in prison if convicted. State Fire Marshal’s spokesperson Ashley Rodrigue says it happened in July when firefighters were called to a mobile home fire in the town of Centerville. When they arrived, they got a horrible shock…:
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Rodrigue says Hamilton admitted to the crimes in interviews with deputies.

History is being made on two fronts as the UL System Board of Supervisors names a new  Northwestern State University president.
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State Epidemiologist Theresa Sokol today a House committee yesterday and said there have been no confirmed state deaths related to COVID-19 vaccines. She says the department has identified 11 severe adverse events and a possible 122 injuries. Sokol says the adverse effects are typically an anaphylactic reaction to the vaccine that requires hospitalization and they also looked at myocarditis…
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But a nurse at the Our Lady of the Lourdes Regional Medical Center in Lafayette there’s been a mass underreporting of severe adverse effects.