3:30 LRN Newscast February 10

House Speaker Clay Schexnayder forms a committee to investigate the 2019 fatal State Police arrest of Ronald Greene and if there was a cover-up. Jeff Palermo has the story…:

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A former Baton Rouge assistant school principal gets life in prison for the 2016 murder of his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn baby. Robert Marks was convicted back in December of the murder of Lyntell Washington, with whom he was having an extra-marital affair.

 

The mother of Ronald Greene, the motorist who was killed while in the custody of the Louisiana State Police, held an emotional press conference today to address the latest developments in this case. Mona Hardin had harsh words for the troopers involved, and everyone else right up the line to the top…:

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She restated her claim that Governor Edwards allowed Greene’s killing to be characterized as an accident, when he knew otherwise.

A former St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy faces battery charges following an incident at the parish jail last month. Daniel Boyet was charged this morning with simple battery. He’s alleged to have roughed up an inmate on January 30th. Details of that “incident” have not been provided by the St. Tammany Sheriff’s Office.

The number of folks in the hospital with COVID keeps dropping. Today LDH reports 1350 hospitalizations, and just over 2700 new cases.