A Bossier City woman faces attempted kidnapping charges after telling her estranged boyfriend an infant at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital in Baton Rouge was their child. BRPD spokesperson Darren Ahmed says 21-year-old Dinesty Selmon made multiple visits to case the hospital and even fooled security into giving her an access badge.
Cut 6 (07) “…in movies.”
Ahmed says Selmon told her boyfriend she gave birth in Alexandria and that their premature child was being treated in Baton Rouge.

Hammond Police are charging three individuals with attempted murder after a female student at Southeastern Louisiana University survived a fentanyl overdose. Police Chief Edwin Bergeron says previously these suspects would just face drug charges, but they are doing something new in Tangipahoa Parish……
Cut 18 (08) “…murder charges.”
50-year-old Kawaiishh Brown and two men, 29-year-old, Shyheim Pines, and 21-year-old Mark Fridge, III face attempted murder charges. The student is back at school.

New Iberia Representative Beau Beaullieu has filed legislation that calls for a constitutional convention so state lawmakers and delegates appointed by the governor can write a new state constitution. Beaullieu says the goal is to move certain items out of the constitution and put them into state law…
cut 12 (08) “…premise of this convention”
According to the Council of State Governments Louisiana’s constitution is one of the longest in the country. It’s been amended over 200 times since adopted in 1974.

A whopping 92-pound, nearly 50-inch Grass Carp was captured in Lake Concordia in Ferriday. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist Shelby Richard says the carp was taken during sampling
Cut 13 (12) “…shy of that.”
Had this carp been captured by traditional fishing methods, it would have bested the current IGFA All-Tackle World Record by four pounds, which was caught in Bulgaria in 2009.