State Police released more details today on Sunday’s fatal police shooting in Hammond. Trooper William Huggins says Tangipahoa Sheriff deputies responded to a domestic disturbance call to a home and shortly after their arrival a man barricaded himself in a vehicle. Huggins says 47-year-old Randall Bass of Hammond was shot when he got out of his truck with a gun and an apparent explosive…:

CUT 10(08)      “fatally injuring him.”

State Police are investigating, as with any officer-involved shooting. Bass had reportedly threatened to burn his estranged wife’s house down, and that’s why police were there.

A local man who went missing last week while hiking in Arkansas, near the Buffalo River has been found alive. 67-year-old Preston Smith was last seen Thursday. He had meant to only hike about 6 miles, but got lost. When rescuers found him he was dehydrated, but able to walk.

Powerball! No winner last night, so Wednesday’s drawing is now worth an estimated $1.2-billion. That’s would be a lump-sum prize of about $597-million.

More clean energy jobs are likely coming to Louisiana. Clean Hydrogen Works plans to build a huge ammonia plant in Ascension Parish. CHW’s Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer Vee Godley says he feels the company fits well here because their goals mesh well with the state’s..:

CUT 08(06)      “…energy initiative.”

Godley says the facility will capture 98 percent of the greenhouse gasses produced and another company will ship it away for safe storage. When it’s operating fully, about 350 direct full time jobs and around 1100 indirect jobs.

State Police are investigating a two-vehicle crash that killed one Monroe woman yesterday. Troopers say 45-year-old Kieta Hale’s SUV ran a stop sign on state Highway 838 and was hit broadside by a concrete truck. She died later a Monroe hospital. A blood toxicology sample was taken to see if impairment played a role in her death.