Connie Estes the Woman charged in the hit and run that killed 6-year-old Jeremiah Ramirez in his Slidell driveway in August has pleaded not guilty. Estes appeared in court today. She was arrested 2 weeks after the accident after another suspect’s attorney delivered evidence clearing him and allegedly implicating Estes to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office. That evidence included neighborhood security footage.
Estes is charged with hit-and-run resulting in death and obstruction of justice.
A 46-year-old Slidell preschool teacher helped Police catch a suspected shoplifter. Police Chief Daniel Seuzenau says Lesli Smith saw a suspect fleeing in a getaway car and offered Sergeant Jeff Kahrs a ride. He coached her during the chase while telling patrol units where the suspects were headed. Mother of three, Smith says she was glad to help her town’s police department that works so hard to keep their community safe…
Sources say LSU will remove the interim tag from Verge Ausberry and the New Iberia native will be the permanent athletics director at LSU. Jeanne Burns has more
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The LSU Board of Supervisors named Wade Rousse as LSU’s new system president. One of the other three finalists for the job, Alabama provost James Dalton has been named chancellor of the flagship campus also overseeing the AgCenter, two health science centers and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Rousse says he first approached Dalton about being the executive vice president of LSU after Dalton interviewed for the president’s job on Friday…