A 17-year-old, who was seven months pregnant, is on life support after she was shot in what authorities call a road rage incident. Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Gerald Sticker says the victim was in a vehicle with three other passengers in the Ponchatoula area and that vehicle was tailgating and brake-checking with another vehicle driven by 54-year-old Barry West. Sticker says West got upset and shot at the other vehicle, striking the 17-year-old in the head…
Sticker says the victim was rushed to the hospital, where she gave birth to her child, but the mother is on life support.
A sad end to a search for a 12-year-old New Orleans boy. New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick says searchers found Bryan Vasquez dead in a lagoon near his home.
Vasquez was a nonverbal autistic boy who disappeared from his home on August 14th when he climbed out of a bedroom window. Foul play has not been ruled out.
Louisiana is one of 13 states where potentially radioactive imported shrimp was recalled from Walmart. Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser says infected shrimp from overseas is ending up on American’s dinner plates far too often.
Nungesser is calling for a ten-cent per pound seafood inspection fee.
Federal and state agencies continue to monitor the air in Tangipahoa Parish where Smitty’s Supply exploded on Friday, sending dozens of different chemicals into the air. EPA Region Six Director Scott Mason has this message for the public…
Cut 14 (06) “….to human health”
Area residents are still concerned and want to know the cause of the explosion and what chemicals were involved.