Police in Jennings say a negligent babysitter is largely to blame for Thursday’s fatal shooting of a 5-year-old child. Jennings Police Chief Danny Semmes says 26-year-old Desome Daniels was watching the children in the home, but left the house for a few minutes to go smoke marijuana. During that time, one of the five kids in the house found a loaded handgun left lying in plain view and shot the other toddler in the chest. Semmes says Daniels and the victim’s aunt were arrested and taken to the Jefferson Davis Parish Jail…:

CUT 11(11)      “…back stolen.”

Semmes says they waited at least 10 minutes after the child was shot to call 911.

In Baton Rouge, another person has been struck and killed by traffic while walking on the city’s often-darkened Burbank Drive near LSU. Police says the victim was hit by multiple vehicles. We don’t know how many. She died in a nearby hospital. An LSU sophomore was hit & killed by traffic less than a week ago on the same street.

On a New Orleans radio program, Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser had some choice words about the Louisiana Republican Party’s decision to come out early with full backing for Attorney General Jeff Landry for Governor, despite other GOP candidates (himself included) interested in running. He is especially angry with GOP Central Committee chairman Louis Gurvich…:

CUT 03(10)      “…endorse.”

Nungesser decided instead to run for another term in his current post, rather than fight the GOP machine.

An ongoing labor study by fiscal website “WalletHub” ranks Louisiana among the top states for people leaving their jobs. Wallethub.com analyst Jill Gonzales says, even in the face of record high inflation, folks are choosing to just quit work…:

CUT 06(08)      “…higher side of things.”

Gonzales says job burnout is the prime factor making people quit. Better opportunities are also behind many resignations, but a great many simply re-evaluated how and where they want to work…and check out.