A Houma woman faces attempted murder charges, after tossing her child off a bridge last Friday afternoon. Houma Police Lt. Travis Theriot says 30-year-old Asha Randolph went into Bayou Terrebonne to retrieve the child, after she did the deed. He says her motive has not been established…:

CUT 10(10)      “…off of a bridge.”

The child survived and will recover completely.

Hurricane-weary Louisiana casts a sympathetic eye to Florida, as Hurricane Ian looks to make landfall Tuesday or early Wednesday along the eastern Gulf Coast. NOAA forecaster Ben Schott says all we should experience is some breezes over most of the state, however…:

CUT 08(11)      “…be that large.”

Our weather forecast is for lots of sunshine and cooler temperatures.

A federal judge will not block Louisiana’s plan to move about two-dozen troubled juvenile offenders from Bridge City Center for Youth in Jefferson Parish to the State Penitentiary at Angola. Judge Shelly Dick agreed the state has to do something about the violence inside the juvenile center. Loyola University law professor Dane Ciolino says the judge took the temporary nature of the state’s plan into account in her decision…:

CUT 05(08)      “…better alternatives.”

A Ponchatoula police officer is arrested in Livingston Parish for allegedly groping an underage child at a weekend wedding in Springfield. 24-year-old Officer Frank Tallia is charged with sexual battery. Ponchatoula Police confirm he was still in the Livingston Parish jail as of this morning, but says he has not yet been suspended from his job. They say they are still gathering information.