Brian Trascher with the United Cajun Navy says their field team arrived in Kentucky Sunday to assist with tornado recovery efforts. Trascher says the immediate needs are tarps and water and unlike a hurricane where you can prepare days in advance tornado victims had only minutes
Cut 9 (08) “…really, really bad.”
You can find more information and photos on the United Cajun Navy’s Facebook page.
Saturday’s election results were historical with the first female sheriff elected in Orleans parish and the first black female ever elected to the position in Louisiana. UNO Political analyst Ed Chervenak says Susan Hutson’s victory over incumbent Marlin Gusman was quite a feat.
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Hutson won with 53-percent of the vote in the parish
Congressman Garret Graves introduces to make it a federal crime to stage a vehicle collision and claim financial damages. The bill targets those involved in staging accidents, collecting from insurance companies and in turn leading to higher insurance rates for the public.
A 50-year-old Eros woman is jailed at the Ouachita Correctional Center on criminal trespass charges after being told twice to leave from the sheriff’s office parking lot Saturday afternoon. Sheriff’s spokesman, Glenn Springfield, identified the person as Sharon Whatley.
Springfield says the woman says she was wanted on charges, but it was determined she wasn’t.