Two men suspected in a Lake Charles murder over the weekend are under arrest. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office says 22-year-old Larry Bigelow was taken into custody in Beaumont, Texas, and 22-year-old Titus Tezeno (TEZ-eh-noh) turned himself in. Both are charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of 23-year-old Kalin (KAY-lin) Stevens.
Book your tickets now for Amtrak’s Mardi Gras Service from New Orleans to Mobile, Alabama. Sean Richardson has more.
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One state senator is expressing frustration over the Supreme Court delaying a ruling over Louisiana’s congressional map. Shreveport Republican Alan Seabaugh is a vocal critic of the current map, and he argued it prioritizes race over equal representation, violating the 14th Amendment.
Even though the redrawn map flipped a Republican seat to Democrat last year, the state has argued in favor of that redrawn map.
With Texas State set to leave the Sun Belt for the revamped PAC-12, could Louisiana Tech fill the void? Dave Schultz of the Locked On Sun Belt Podcast says, don’t count on it. He says the Sun Belt has reached out to East Carolina, who responded with a wait-and-see.