A bullet fired into an Alexandria home has killed a teenage girl. Jeff Palermo has the latest on the investigation…
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The first of six public meetings get underway Monday evening on potential sites for a new I-10 Mississippi River Bridge connecting LA 1 to LA 30. Brooke Thorington has more.
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Alexandria Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old girl who died when a bullet entered her home on Monroe street last night. Lt. Lane Windham says Kaliyah Turner was rushed to a local hospital…
Windham says Turner was in her bedroom when several bullets entered her home…
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Windham says they do not have any suspects at this time….
If anyone has information, they are urged to contact the Alexandria Police Department.
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State Police are investigating a deputy-involved shooting in Assumption Parish after sheriff’s deputies tried to make a traffic stop Sunday morning of a stolen Ford pickup. Trooper Ross Brennan says after a short pursuit the driver 26-year-old Rhett Thibodeaux of Larose, stopped the vehicle.
Brennan says when Thibodeaux’s truck went into reverse and hit two of the units behind him, one of the deputies fired their gun at the truck.
The Ford pickup was reported stolen out of Lafourche Parish and Brennan says evidence gathered at the scene is being processed at the State Police Crime Lab and the investigation is ongoing.
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This evening the first of six public meetings allowing residents to provide input for the potential Mississippi River Bridge LA 1 to LA 30 connector is being held. DOTD Secretary Shawn Wilson says public meetings are vital so they can narrow down the ten potential bridge sites to two or three locations.
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Tonight’s meeting is in Baton Rouge at the library on Bluebonnet from 5 until 7. For a listing visit DOTD-dot-la-gov and search Mississippi River Bridge LA 1 to LA 30 connector.
Wilson says with ten potential sites that the Coast Guard has also provided guidance on, they are now asking the public for their thoughts
And while Wilson is inviting the public for their input on the potential location for the two-billion-dollar bridge, he also wants the public to voice where they don’t want the bridge to be constructed.
Wilson says they expect to narrow down sites to two or three locations and then conduct more in-depth studies on those locations.
For a list of meeting sites visit http://wwwapps.dotd.la.gov/administration/announcements/announcement.aspx?key=29706
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The House Civil Law Committee approves legislation that gives Louisiana citizens the right to accept or reject any form of health care. Abita Springs Representative Larry Frieman says he authored the constitutional amendment after seeing some people lose their job over not getting the COVID vaccine…
The measure passed on an eleven to one vote, Lake Charles Representative Wilford Carter was the lone member to vote against the measure. He says current law prohibits the firing of an employee for race, age, gender and disability and this proposal would add a fifth basis for why you can not be fired…
Frieman says the legislation does not prohibit an employer from instituting a vaccine mandate. He says this legislation is intended to give citizens a legal right to reject to any medical treatment…