Based on data collected by the Public Affairs Research Council, Louisiana has the second highest incarceration rate in the country. PAR President Steven Procopio says Mississippi was number one…
Following Mississippi and Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Alabama rank in the top five for the highest incarceration rates.
Baton Rouge Police arrest a 20-year-old Houma man for the alleged rape of an underage girl. BRPD spokesman Sgt. L’Jean (EL-gene) McKneely says 20-year-old Kwan Allen made contact with the 16-year-old girl via social media; representing himself being much younger. McKneely says he courted the girl for weeks before enticing her to a meeting at the Mall of Louisiana…:
CUT 09 (09) “…upon her”
McKneely says the victim’s 8-year-old sister was waiting in the teen girls’ car, while the assault was occurring in Allen’s vehicle.
It’s National Oyster Day and the Bayou State is very familiar with the well-loved seafood, but the local industry has been in serious recovery mode thanks to the last two hurricane seasons. Oyster Task Force Chairman Mitch Jurisich says they are starting to see oyster spawns.
He says Louisiana is still the number one oyster producer in the world but hanging on by a thread.
The Great American Seafood Cookoff is Saturday in New Orleans with opening ceremonies at 11:15 in the New Orleans Convention Center and Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser says the cooks have a limited amount of time to cook up their best seafood dish in front of a live audience and nationally acclaimed judges…