Governor John Bel Edwards’ plan to send the most violent inmates from the troubled Bridge City Center for Youth to Angola state prison comes under fire. More from Kevin Gallagher…:
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Two officials from Amite will be sentenced in November after pleading guilty in a federal court in a vote-buying case. Former police chief Jerry Trabona and current City Council member Kristian Hart pleaded guilty to charges that they offered to pay people to vote for them.
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority has finished its largest barrier island restoration project, with the completion of the Terrebonne Basin Barrier Islands. The project restored one-thousand acres of barrier island habitat. Project manager April Newman.
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The $166-million project used funds from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The media picks LSU football to finish in fifth place in the highly competitive SEC West. As expected, Alabama is the preseason favorite. The projected order following the Crimson Tide is Texas A-and-M, Arkansas, Ole Miss, and LSU. Tiger Rag Editor Tim Buckley says the media that covers the SEC looks at LSU as being a year or two away from really competing in college football’s toughest division.