The owner of an engineering firm in New Orleans has been awarded Small Business Person of the Year. Brooke Thorington has more.
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The baseball coach at Walker High School faces felony theft charges after he allegedly submitted false invoices totaling close to $30,000. Brooke Thorington has more.
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Governor Jeff Landry’s legislative priorities are facing resistance in the Senate. Colleen Crain has the story…
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The National 2024 Small Business Person of the Year is from Bayou State. Iam Tucker is the president and CEO of Integrated Logistical Support in New Orleans. As a second-generation small business owner of 15 years, Tucker says she’s extremely honored to receive the recognition.
Integrated Logistical Support consists of civil and structural engineers who provide construction management. Tucker says that after an architect draws plans for a structure, the civil engineers make it work. For example…
As a former Baton Rouge police officer, Tucker says her plans to excel in law enforcement were sidetracked when her father asked her to purchase his business. The UNO graduate says she made steady payments to her father and has grown the firm to 50 employees with a revenue of over $2.7 million.
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Under her leadership her firm has received more than 100 contract awards across various state, local and federal agencies.
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Police have arrested 34-year-old Foreign National Amanvir (Uh man ver) Singh (Sing) in the shooting death of 36-year-old long-haul truck driver, Gurpreet (Gore preet) Singh Judge. The shooting occurred alongside Interstate 20 in Caddo Parish last month and Wednesday night, Singh was arrested near Jackson, Mississippi where he lives. Sgt. Casey Jones with the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office …
Jones says the incident was originally believed to have been a road rage incident. It’s now known that the two knew of each other.
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At the time of the shooting, witnesses reported two people outside their vehicles arguing on the one ramp to I-20 and when the victim tried to run away, the suspect allegedly shot him. Jones says the investigation is still ongoing…
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The head baseball coach at Walker High School, Nicholas Scelfo has been arrested for allegedly submitting false invoices of almost $30,000 to the school for reimbursement of equipment he never purchased. Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard says they were contacted after school officials conducted an equipment inventory.
When the school discovered no equipment they reviewed the reimbursement invoices, and contacted vendors associated with the orders. They found the orders did not exist. Ard says they are still investigating the incident.
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Ard says the arrest for felony theft over $25,000 comes as quite a shock to the community.
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Governor Landry’s legislative priorities are running into resistance in the Senate. A House approved school choice bill that the governor supports has yet to be heard by Senate Education. Landry also backs a major change in the public records law, but the bill awaits a debate on the Senate floor. And Senate President Cameron Henry also does not fully support a proposed constitutional convention. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat…
Pinsonat says Representative Julie Emerson’s Education Savings Account bill passed 72 to 32 in the House on April 8, but the measure that would greatly expand the state’s voucher program has stalled in the Senate…
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Pinsonat says a big concern with the E-S-A bill is the cost. The proposal makes taxpayer dollars available to all families to pay for education expenses, including private school tuition.
Pinsonat says Senate President Cameron Henry is not fully on board with Landry on the E-S-A bill or the constitutional convention
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The LSU baseball team will host the Texas A&M Aggies this weekend. A&M currently sits on top of D1 Baseball’s rankings and the Aggies are top 3 in the SEC in almost every major hitting and pitching category so far this season. The Aggies will not be the first number one team that the Tigers have faced, but LSU Head Coach Jay Johnson says that they may be the most complete team they’ve seen since there are seemingly no holes in A&M’s play.
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The Aggies are not only a very balanced team, but they have been dominating their competition this season. That dominant play has shown up in many ways, but none more empathic than last weekend when A&M run-ruled the nineteenth ranked Georgia Bulldogs 19 to 9. Coach Johnson says that taking on Texas A&M will be an exciting opportunity for the Tigers.
LSU has won seven of its past nine games after taking two of three against Missouri and Auburn as well as defeating UNO, Nicholls, and Grambling in midweek games. The Tigers need this winning streak to continue if they want to make the NCAA tournament this season and Johnson says that his team is in the right mindset to accomplish this goal.
LSU will take on Texas A&M with the first pitch today at 7 pm and the game will be broadcast on ESPN2 and the SEC Network.
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New ULM Warhawks football coach Byrant Vincent says that he has seen a lot of offseason progress show up in his team’s spring training. Vincent says that he has a plan in place to help get the Warhawks back on track in the win column, but like with any new system, he says that there will be some challenges that come with everything being new.
The Warhawks finished last season with a 2 and 10 record overall and an 0 and 8 record in SunBelt play. Vincent says that building a winning culture at ULM will take time and that the first eight weeks are very important to a program’s success. That’s why Vincent says he’s developed a two part plan to really build a strong foundation for ULM.
The Warhawks will open their 2024 season at home against Jackson State on August 29th.