A new review of judicial candidates qualifying for elections in Louisiana shows a vast majority of judges will be elected or re-elected without opposition this fall. Eric Gill has more…:
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Governor Bobby Jindal says a Helsinki company’s US division is planning to build a $60 million plant in Louisiana to make sugar cane scraps into industrial sugars and biofuels. Jindal and Virdia Inc say the project will create 120 construction jobs and 81 full time jobs in Raceland.

State Police is looking into some apparent discrepancies in water quality reporting between what St. John the Baptist Parish had compared to what the Department of Health and Hospitals came up with. Sgt. Nick Manale says parish officials found a potentially dangerous amoeba in their water supply and DHH came up with differing findings than what the parish reported. He says everyone is being cooperative with the investigation…:
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He says their job is to determine if any criminal activity took place.

The DA’s office in Iberville Parish says they don’t think they will charge the accused killer of Baton Rouge TV personality Scott Rogers. The man is Mathew Hodgkinson and he could walk free and not be arrested for murder. Iberville Parish Assistant DA Tony Clayton says allegations of Rogers’ sexual abuse of minor children in England have caused him to reconsider plans to prosecute Hodgkinson who remains on life support. Police believe the comatose man shot Rogers then turned the gun on himself.