Senator John Kennedy has told supporters he will not run for governor. Fellow Republican Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser announces his decision Tuesday. Jeff Palermo has more…
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Jefferson Parish deputies arrest two children for a string of car thefts and burglaries, and they’re looking for two other suspects. Brooke Thorington has more.
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Now that Senator John Kennedy has told supporters he will not run for governor this year, the next shoe to drop appears to be Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser. The 63-year-old Republican was a guest on Talk Louisiana with Jim Engster today and says tourism officials are encouraging him to run for re-election…
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Nungesser says he’ll make his announcement on WWL Radio in New Orleans on January 10th.
Attorney General Jeff Landry is the only major candidate to announce his candidacy for governor. Nungesser and Landry are not on friendly terms and on WRKF’s Talk Louisiana Nungesser said Landry is not electable because of his nasty political style…
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Several Republicans are considering a run at governor, including State Treasurer John Schroder, Congressman Garret Graves, state lawmakers Richard Nelson and Sharon Hewitt and there will be Democrats who will get in the race too. Nungesser is a moderate and is concerned if too many Republicans run, it will hurt his chances at making the run-off…
Nungesser says if he can get in the run-off he likes his chances at becoming Louisiana’s next governor.
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Jefferson Parish deputies arrest two children, ages 12 and 14, for a string of car thefts and burglaries. The two were apprehended early Wednesday morning in the midst of a car burglary at the Creeks of River Ridge apartment complex and two suspects got away in dramatic fashion. Sheriff Joe Lopinto said one suspect fled the scene, carjacked a vehicle, crashed it, and ran off on foot. While the other suspect drove off, he encountered two deputies blocking the complex exit.
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Lopinto says the getaway car was a vehicle that had been carjacked from St. John on Tuesday.
A 12-year-old and 14-year-old were arrested and the four are believed to be linked to more than 60 car burglaries. Lopinto says the mother of the two juveniles, 42-year-old Tiffany Broomfield came to the sheriff’s office and was questioned why she didn’t know where her children were at 2 am.
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Lopinto says after Broomfield argued with officers she was arrested on outstanding warrants and told her two children would not be going home with her. Lopinto says he has a 12-year-old, and he knows where they are in the middle of the night.
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Deputies say they’ve checked with local hospitals for any gunshot wounds possibly related to the incident in case one of the suspects was shot when he drove off.
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The work release inmate accused of killing a co-worker at Foster Farms in Farmerville has been arrested in Texas. Union Parish Sheriff Dusty Gates and his deputies have been looking for 48-year-old Bruce Causey since April
Gates says Causey fatally stabbed Ketrick Lavon Calhoun at the chicken processing plant and fled the scene. He says police in Texas responding to a verbal domestic incident near Houston resulted in Causey’s arrest.
Gates says Causey will have to face a firearm charge in Texas before he’s extradited to Louisiana. The sheriff says the Calhoun family is relieved…
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It looks like a third day of voting will pass without the U.S. House selecting a Speaker. Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has fallen short of the 218 votes needed to become speaker for a 9th time today. “The Advocate” reporter Mark Ballard – who is in D.C. at the Capitol – says this is despite talk in the halls of Congress that negotiations with McCarthy’s naysayers were making progress…:
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In a seventh vote taken at mid-day today (Thursday), McCarthy gathered only 201 votes. Democrat Hakeem Jeffries had 213. A motion for an 8th vote fell short of enough votes to proceed. A 9th vote today also failed to elect him. Ballard says behind-the-scenes negotiations will go on until the GOP can unite sufficient votes behind McCarthy’s leadership..:
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There are 20 Republican holdouts, who want concessions from McCarthy as House leader. Ballard says they want House rules changed so it no longer takes a majority vote to call for a vote to replace the Speaker. They also demand he commit to allowing far fewer so-called omnibus federal spending bills…:
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Ballard says there are still 5 congressmen who vow they will never vote for McCarthy as Speaker, and he’ll need at least three of their votes to cross the finish line.