The mother of the 12-year-old New Orleans boy whose body was pulled from a lagoon near the home he disappeared from 12 days earlier has been arrested. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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A six-year-old child shot during a balloon release ceremony has died from her injuries. Jeff Palermo has the details…
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It was 90 years ago today when former Governor Huey Long was shot inside the State Capitol. Two days later, Long, who was a U.S. Senator at the time, would die at the age of 42 as a result from injuries suffered in that shooting. Retired LSU College of Business Dean Richard White wrote a book on Huey Long’s life; he said there were two Huey Longs – first, there was the Huey Long before his impeachment.
But then, White said Long became a different man after his impeachment, saying that he vigorously went after his enemies.
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White said all in all, Huey Long was a fascinating man.
Long was at the Capitol for a redistricting session on September 8th, 1935, when physician Carl Weiss shot him. Long’s bodyguards returned fire, killing him. Long’s remains are buried on the grounds of the State Capitol, which Long had been instrumental in building.
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The mother of Bryan Vasquez, the 12-year-old non-verbal autistic boy found dead in a lagoon last month 12 days after disappearing from his home has been arrested. New Orleans Police Deputy Superintendent Hans Ganthier (GAHN-thee-ay) says 34-year-old Hilda Vasquez was arrested yesterday.
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(Hilda Vasquez is charged with second-degree cruelty to a juvenile and negligent homicide.) The coroner ruled that Bryan Vasquez had drowned, with the secondary cause being blunt force trauma caused by an alligator. Another deputy superintendent, Nicholas Gernon, says this is not the first time Hilda had been negligent or abusive towards her son.
In fact, Gernon says Hilda was convicted of abusing Bryan when he was just three months old.
Gernon would not go into detail as to the circumstances of DCFS returning Bryan to the home or when it happened. Hilda Vasquez was booked into the Orleans Parish Jail.
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A six-year-old south Louisiana girl shot during a balloon release has died. Lafayette Police Sergeant Robin Green says the shooting took place on August 24. Green says the shooting was in response to a previous shooting…
The four individuals arrested are Rickey Chaney, Daylon Andrus, Ja Andrea Kentrell Willis and Kimmy Ray Dauntain Junior. The charges against the four men have been upgraded to second degree murder. Green says two of the suspects were arrested in Texas, one in Lake Charles and the fourth in Lafayette…
Riley Francis had been in critical condition in a Baton Rouge hospital since the shooting. Green says a verbal argument between two men at the balloon release at Deballion Park led to gunfire…
A GoFundMe account has been set up on behalf of the family.
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LSU football coach Brian Kelly was visibly frustrated following the team’s lackluster 23-7 win over Louisiana Tech Saturday night. After breaking down the game film, he feels better about his team’s performance.
Louisiana Tech’s defense held down LSU’s offense, holding the Tigers to two touchdowns. But Kelly says there were good individual performances.
But Kelly says it was not an elite performance against the Bulldogs.
Kelly says the focus has to be better as the team prepares for Saturday’s SEC opener against Florida.