The Lafayette man convicted in the 2013 death of 15-year-old Austin Rivault and the injuring of two other teens is scheduled to be sentenced this morning. Scott Carwile reports…:
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Officials with the FBI are looking for known victims in Louisiana of a nationwide “sextortion” case in which a man is accused of tricking underage girls into performing sex acts on camera. 26-year-old Lucas Michael Chanseler of Florida allegedly was pretending to be a teenage boy. It is believed he had hundreds of victims in almost half the country including three in Louisiana.

There are many legislative seats up for grabs in the fall statewide elections. There are 9 seats on the Senate side and at least 19 on the House side. Political analyst and pollster John Couvillon says there is a varying degree of ways candidates may choose to campaign and how much money they may need to run…:
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He says the jockeying for these open seats is well underway, even though qualifying for these races happens in two months.

After the original hosts of the Baton Rouge hosted 2015 Miss USA pageant pulled out of the show following controversial comments made by Donald Trump, three new presenters have been announced. Todd Newton announced on his twitter that he would be co-hosting the pageant with Alex Wehrley. Julie Alexandria will be handling the backstage coverage. The event is airing on the Reelz channel Sunday night.