An Alabama man is potentially facing the rest of his life in prison after being arrested for indecent conduct with a Lafourche Parish teenage girl on an online gaming platform. Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Captain Brennan Matherne says 24-year-old Landen Westfall contacted the girl while playing Roblox.
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West Carroll Chamber of Commerce has purchased the West Carroll Gazette from Louisiana State Newspapers, which means the newspaper will continue publishing on a weekly basis. Adam Holland owns KWCL Radio and is on the board directors for the chamber; he says the community did not want to lose its local paper.
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The Public Service Commission says it will conduct an audit of Delta Utilities billing and costs after hearing complaints about high gas bills from Baton Rouge and New Orleans customers. Jeff Palermo has the story.
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Many expected it and today Dr. Ramesh Kolluru will lose the “interim” tag and officially be named the president of U-L Lafayette. Kolluru had been serving as interim president since the retirement of Dr. Joseph Savoie and had been widely expected to land the job permanently since day one. UL System President and CEO Rick Gallot (“gallow”) says making Kolluru the seventh president of U-L Lafayette is the right move.