A six-year-old boy is dead after a shootout that involved City Marshals in Marksville. Avoyelles Parish Coroner, Dr LJ Mayeaux, has identified the child as Jeremy Mardis. Mayeaux says the deceased child was a passenger in a vehicle. The driver was the child’s father, Chris Few, and Mayeaux says city marshals were chasing Few after he fled an attempt to serve a warrant…
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Mayeaux says once the chase ended, there was an exchange of gunfire. The child died from multiple gunshot wounds, while Few is in critical condition.

And State Police says an Alabama man was killed when his 18-wheeler went over the guardrail and plunged into the Pearl River in St. Tammany Parish last night. Investigators are calling it a fatal hit and run and the search is on for a dark colored pickup truck that attempted to pass another 18-wheeler on the right shoulder, which caused a chain reaction of events to occur.

The state House Republican caucus endorses Senator David Vitter in Louisiana’s gubernatorial runoff, but will Senate Republicans do the same? Eric Gill reports…
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New Orleans has been selected to host the college football national championship game in January 2020.Executive director of the CFP, Bill Hancock, says there are a lot of reasons why they wanted to crown a future champion in the Big Easy…
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Hancock also announced that Atlanta will host the championship game in 2018 and Santa Clara will host the title game in January 2019.