Former Iberville Parish teacher of the year will spend two years behind bars for having sex with three of his former students. Emelie Gunn has more…
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A Houma man has been arrested after he shot and killed his neighbor’s Pitbull because the dog bit his son. Jeff Palermo has more…
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A Houma man is facing animal cruelty charges after he allegedly shot and killed his neighbor’s pit bull. Sgt. Travis Theriot says 60-year-old Karl Kohman shot the 2-year-old dog after the K-9 bit his son.
Theriot says Kohman’s 34-year-old son was walking through the neighbor’s yard when the dog bit him on the ankle. He says Kohman hid the dog’s body after the shooting.
Theriot says Kohman faces charges of aggravated cruelty to animals, illegal use of a weapon, obstruction of justice, and criminal trespassing. Theriot says if someone is bit by a dog, they should never take matters into their own hands.
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Former Iberville Parish teacher, Keavin Keith, will spend two years in prison for having sex with three of his former students. Keith was sentenced to 10 years in jail for five counts of felony carnal knowledge, but eight of the years were suspended. Sheriff Brett Stassi says he suggested 10 years of hard labor, but the decision is ultimately up to the courts.
Keith was the Iberville Parish teacher of the year in 2013. Stassi says DNA evidence found Keith fathered a child with one of his victims.
Keith pleaded no contest to all charges. Stassi says he hopes this conviction shows that behavior like that will not be tolerated in Iberville Parish.
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Police say a child was killed in Ruston this morning after being struck by her mother’s vehicle as she was dropping her child off at school. Ruston Police Deputy Chief Clint Williams says first responders arrived at New Living Word Church shortly before eight AM and made a heartbreaking discovery.
Williams says it appears the 4-year-old child tried to exit the vehicle while it was still moving and fell out. He says the child was unresponsive when the EMTs arrived.
Williams says no charges have been filed against the child’s mother. He says the child apparently tried to get out of the vehicle while it was still moving.
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The Edwards Administration is very concerned about state funding for healthcare, as the full House is set to debate the proposed spending plan for next fiscal year. Department of Health and Hospitals Sec. Rebekah Gee says the House budget committee shifted dollars away from DHH and this could lead to multiple hospital closures and would eliminate jobs that inspect potentially unsafe facilities…
Gee says the budget proposal approved by the House Appropriations Committee will also lead to major cuts to multiple waiver programs, including those that keep patients out of nursing homes and developmentally disabled children in their homes. She says DHH has over 230 million dollars in unmet needs.
House Appropriates Chairman Cameron Henry defended the reallocating of the dollars during a discussion of the proposed budget.
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The Raise the Age Bill is moving closer to final legislative passage, as it has been approved by the House Criminal Justice Committee without objection. The measure would increase the age at which someone can be tried as an adult for nonviolent crimes from 17 to 18. Executive Director for the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights Joshua Perry supports the bill. He says a mistake at 17 shouldn’t ruin someone’s life.
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Pete Adams with the District Attorneys Association says his office has withdrawn their objection to the proposal. Perry says DA’s would still be able to prosecute some 17-year-olds as adults.
The measure heads to the House floor for final legislative passage.
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