9:30 am Newscast

Phase One of Entergy’s one point two-billion-dollar Grid Resilience Plan gets the green light from the Public Service Commission. Colleen Crain has more.

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A Springfield man was sentenced to 50 years in prison and physical castration yesterday…after pleading guilty to the repeated rape of a 14 year old girl. DA Scott Perrilloux’s Office said 54 year old Glenn Sullivan Senior pleaded guilty to four counts of second degree rape after DNA proved that Sullivan was the father of the teenager’s baby.

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More than half of all Louisiana residents have experienced physical violence in their lifetime. And the emotional cost is particularly high for children. Aaccording to a Necome Institute Study at Tulane 22 percent of children in Louisiana who’ve witnessed their mother or primary caregiver be a victim of domestic violence are more likely to be involved in a similar relationship in adulthood.

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After 46 years in prison for the murders he committed at the age of 16, 63-year-old Warren Harris Junior has been granted parole. Jerrie Ledoux, who was also appointed by Governor Jeff Landry, told Harris she read the 200 pages of his file several times and while some things in his write-up still concerned her, she voted in favor of his parole.

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The Louisiana Parole Project argued that Harris’ drug addiction as a teen was the cause of his erratic behavior.