Three people died in a horrific and tragic scene on I-12 in Livingston Parish yesterday. Authorities say a small sedan used the westbound exit ramp and entered the interstate in the wrong direction near Albany and collided head-on with an RV and caught fire on impact. All three occupants of the sedan including a 9-year-old child were pronounced dead at the scene. The occupants of the RV were able to exit the RV and suffered minor injuries.
A free app that allows drivers to be notified of police pursuits is being rolled out in Iberville Parish. It was on LA 1 on New Year’s Eve 2022 where 17-year-old Maggie Dunn and 16-year-old Caroline Gill were killed by Addis Police Officer who was driving 86 miles an hour while pursuing the driver of a stolen vehicle. Gill’s father, Jason, is thankful that the Iberville Sheriff’s office is rolling out this technology.
Cut 4 (04) “…in those pursuits.”
A 12-foot, one-thousand-pound, great white shark was recently tracked off of Louisiana’s coast, near the Chandeleur Islands east of New Orleans. Doctor Sean Powers, director of the Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences at University of South Alabama, says it’s rare to see a great white shark near the Northern Gulf coast, but not unprecedented
Legendary football coach Pat Collins will be remembered during funeral services tomorrow in Monroe. Collins led Northeast Louisiana University, now known as ULM, to the Division One-Double-A Championship in 1987 and was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2015/ Collins also coaches at local high schools, West Ouachita and Ouachita. Former N-L-U receiver and assistant coach, Tag Rome …