Noncustodial parents who lost their driver’s license because of delinquent child support payments have an easier chance to get their license reinstated with a program called On the Road Again. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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A little boy is rescued from a hot car, and you’re not going to believe his mother’s excuse. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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With this being Child Support Awareness Month, the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services is bringing back its “On the Road Again” program. Assistant Secretary of Family Support, Sammy Guillory, says it’s an opportunity for noncustodial parents who lost their driver’s license because they haven’t been paying their child support to regain their driver’s license…
During the promotion which lasts through September 30th, eligible parents can reinstate their license by paying two months of child support for each case, pay 100-dollars toward any past-due balance for each and pay any court-ordered fees.
Guillory says last year 131 parents participated in the On the Road Again initiative, resulting in more than 155-thousand dollars collected on behalf of 202 children…
Guillory says it’s a last resort measure to suspend a non custodial parent’s driver’s license because they have fallen too far behind on their child support payments….
Guillory says the On the Road Again initiative gives parents a real opportunity to get back on track…not just with their license, but with their role in supporting children.
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A two-year-old boy is safe after being left in a hot car in Shreveport for up to 30 minutes. Someone saw the little boy in distress inside the car outside a Dollar Tree store and flagged down an officer about 100 yards away. Police Corporal Christopher Bordelon says despite the fact that it was well before noon, the temperature was already soaring.
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And Bordelon says that made the temperature inside the vehicle even hotter, even with the window rolled down.
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The boy’s mother, LaCrystol Johnson, eventually walked out of the store and was arrested and charged with child desertion. Bordelon says Johnson told officers that she felt that it would be okay to leave the boy inside the car because she left the window down. Bordelon says despite the fact that the boy was in the car for up to a half hour, he came out of the ordeal unscathed.
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With the peak of hurricane season now just weeks away, the Louisiana Department of Insurance has launched an updated mobile app. Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says the new and improved LDI Connect app has some new features, including enhanced weather reporting.
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Commissioner Temple says the new app also contains some useful short videos to help navigate you through the sometimes complicated world of insurance.
Temple says LDI Connect initially launched last year, and they took note of what worked and what didn’t work, and they worked to improve it for this year’s peak hurricane season.
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The new and improved LDI Connect app is live on the Apple App Store and on the Google Play Store now.
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LSU football coach Brian Kelly joked today that Garrett Nussmeier will not need his leg amputated after a rumor swirled on Wednesday that he suffered a serious injury. Kelly says it’s just tendinitis in his knee…
Kelly says Nussmeier has patella tendinitis as a result of a surgery in 2023. He says the tendon got a little cranky on Wednesday…
Kelly expects Nussmeier to participate in a practice setting on Saturday. LSU’s first scrimmage of preseason camp is Saturday.