Governor Landry is asking Congress to shift West Feliciana Parish’s federal judicial district from the Middle District to the Western District. Landry says it’s to ease the caseload in a district with a growing population. However, legal analyst Franz Borghardt says there’s an ulterior motive – to shift cases involving prisoners at Angola to a court where Landry could get more favorable rulings.
Cut 3 (09) “…the Middle District.”
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.
Cut 14 (12) “…and harming herself.”
It’s likely to happen at any moment – the U-L Board of Supervisors is expected to remove the interim tag from Dr. Ramesh Kolluru and to name him the permanent president of U-L Lafayette. Kolluru is answering the board’s questions at this hour in a special meeting in Baton Rouge. System President and CEO Rick Gallot (“gallow”) says the Presidential Search Committee’s decision to name Kolluru as its sole finalist was obvious.
Cut 12 (11) “…that he’s garnered.”
The West Carroll Chamber of Commerce purchases the West Carroll Gazette, allowing it to continue publishing. 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 weekly paper.