Investigators have learned that the Eunice mother who shot her two children then took her own life, while also setting her home on fire, purchased a hand gun nine days before the double murder suicide. Deputy Chief with the state Fire Marshal’s Office Brant Thompson says the autopsy results came back confirming their suspicions…

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Thompson says the mother, 39-year-old Carla Watford, carefully planned out this murder.

A recent poll of Louisiana voters on the presidential race, paid for by The Advocate and WWL-TV, shows Governor Bobby Jindal receiving only three-percent support from state Republicans. UL-Lafayette Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says this has to be disheartening to Jindal…

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The poll, conducted by Clarus Research Group, shows Ben Carson leading the Republican field with 23-percent.

A grand jury has indicted a Lafayette woman on a second degree murder charge in the death of her newborn baby whose body was discovered 14 years later in a storage unit. 57-year-old Rebecca Landry was arrested in June after a renter discovered the corpse after the storage unit was auctioned off. Authorities say Landry claims she was suffering from alcoholism when she gave birth to the baby in secret. When the child died a few days later, she hid the body. If convicted, Landry faces a mandatory life sentence.

The Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2016 will be enshrined next summer at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Museum in Natchitoches. NBA standout PJ Brown of Winnfield is among next year’s class of eight. Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Chairman Doug Ireland says Brown was a great player at Louisiana Tech, but didn’t project to be a 15 year NBA Veteran…

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The class also includes Major League All-Star pitcher Ben Sheets and former NFL star Anthony Thomas.