Summer is approaching and routines are changing. Safety advocates are urging parents and caregivers to take action to prevent the horrible tragedy of a child dying in a hot car. Jeff Palermo has more…
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While trying to escape during a transport from the Catahoula Correctional Center, an inmate was fatally shot. Brooke Thorington has more.
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Louisiana leads the nation on a per capita basis for the number of children who died from being in a hot car too long. Since 1998, 36 kids in Louisiana lost their life from Pediatric Vehicular Heatstroke. Louisiana Highway Safety Commission spokesperson Greg Fisher says if you have small children, keep your vehicles locked…
Fisher says Pediatric Vehicular Homicide can happen quickly in a parked car. He says temperatures can rise 10 to 15 degrees in as little as 15 minutes
Fisher says another hot summer is approaching and routines are changing with kids getting out of school. He says there have been several cases of parents forgetting they had a small child in the backseat
Fisher says the best way to preventing these tragedies is for every parent and caregiver to understand that this can happen to anybody.
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A Catahoula Correctional Center Inmate was fatally shot after allegedly faking an illness during transport and attacking two correctional officers. Lt. Jared Sandifer with the Louisiana State Police says it happened just outside of St. Francisville Wednesday morning.
The inmate has been identified as 46-year-old Raymond Huddleston of Baton Rouge. He was being transported to a court hearing.
Sandifer says Huddleston was able to disarm one of the correctional officers, and that officer was able to retrieve the firearm. He says Huddleston also tried to drive off in the van.
Despite officers rendering aid after Huddleston was shot, he died from his injuries. Sandifer says state police are investigating and it appears before Huddleston faked a seizure, he was able to remove his restraints.
The officers were treated and released for minor injuries. A second inmate who was in the van was not involved and uninjured.
This is an active investigation.
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The Louisiana Workforce Commission reports the number of seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs increased by 500 from February to March and by 11-hundred since March 2023. Chief Economist for the L-W-C Emily Dipalma says the state has recorded 36 consecutive months of over-the-year-gains in nonfarm employment…
The Baton Rouge metro area led the state with 19-hundred jobs added since February. New Orleans added 15-hundred jobs. Dipalma says the rest of Louisiana’s metro areas added or lost a few hundred jobs….
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Dipalma says construction had the largest gains for seasonally adjusted jobs over the month…