A former art teacher at Golden Meadow Middle School in Lafourche Parish receives a 40-year prison sentence for sexually abusing a student. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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35-year-old Quentin Anderson is the youngest candidate running for the 6th Congressional District. Brooke Thorington has more.
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A former art teacher at Golden Meadow Middle School in Lafourche Parish has been sentenced to 40-years in prison for sexually abusing one of his former students in 2009. Prosecutor Jason Chatagnier (shot-en-ya_ says during the trial they presented evidence on how Ralph Cheramie (cher-a-me) Junior would groom his victims…
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Cheramie was convicted on sexual battery, molestation and indecent behavior charges. Chatagnier says the victim initially reported the incident to school administrators, but an internal investigation yielded little action. He says the victim now as an adult came forward again, reporting the incident to law enforcement, which led to a conviction…
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Chatagnier says Cheramie’s sentences are to be served concurrently…
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Political newcomer, Quentin Anderson from Baton Rouge has entered the race to run for the 6th Congressional District and says he wants to bring integrity and honor back to public service. As the son and grandson of preachers and military veterans, Anderson says he was taught the value of public service.
He also runs a non-profit professional called the Justice Alliance and has done consulting for Together Baton Rouge and Together Louisiana. Anderson says his background is figuring out ways to talk about progressive solutions with individuals who aren’t progressive.
The 35-year-old says he wants to focus on crime, particularly youth violent crime. Anderson says he wants to invest in youth jobs programs and ways to keep them busy.
He says addressing crime is much deeper than policing, it’s about providing opportunity instead of a life of corruption.
And Anderson says he wants to address infrastructure and revitalization.
The small business owner, who received his undergraduate at Louisiana Tech and a law degree from LSU has qualified as a Democrat, running against state Senator Cleo Fields and former legislator Elbert Guillory.
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There’s a good chances for more scattered thunderstorms through the weekend as this wet weather pattern plans to stick around into next week. National Weather Service Meteorologist Marti Calhoun…
Calhoun says an upper level trough will remain in place for several days, which will bring the southern half of the state daily showers and thunderstorms…
At the moment there are no flash flood warnings or watches posted. Calhoun says several weeks of relatively dry weather leading up this rainfall allows the ground and rivers to soak up a lot of moisture…
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A federal grand jury has indicted New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s former bodyguard, Jeffrey Vappie, on seven counts of wire fraud and one count of false statement. The U-S Attorney’s office says Vappie lied to cover up a romantic relationship with Cantrell and political analyst Clancy Dubos says the indictment implicates the major who is described as “public official one”….
The indictment says there were meals and alcohol shared between the two during at least 14 domestic and international travels from 2021 to March of this year. He says those trips cost taxpayers more than 47-thousand dollars.
So why is Cantrell not facing an indictment? Dubos says federal prosecutors take their time before indicting a public official
Dubos says a potential Cantrell indictment could also be a much broader investigation and it will take more time…
Vappie retired from the New Orleans Police Department earlier this year.