Two Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Deputies were shot while serving a felony warrant in Monroe. Sheriff Jay Russell says 26-year-old Rickie Wade Jr was found a few blocks from the scene a couple hours after the shooting. He says the Swat team pumped gas into the house to get the suspect out of the residence without hurting him.
Russell says Wade shot one deputy in the leg, and the other near his face.
Since February, legislators have been trying to solve a massive budget deficit and in this second special session they’ve increased tax revenue by at least 258-million dollars. House Appropriations Chairman Cameron Henry says that money will go toward mitigating cuts safety net hospitals and the TOPS scholarship program…
The second special session must conclude by midnight tonight.
A new law goes into effect on August 1 that expands the felony for assaults on police officers. West Monroe Senator Mike Walsworth says the law includes all weapons in the felony, not just firearms. He says we need to ensure that people who go after law enforcement are put behind bars.
Walsworth says the idea for this law came about when two police officers in Monroe were attacked by someone wielding an ax.
A brand new state-of-the-art breast imaging center, offering hi-tech methods for breast cancer detection, is opening today in Shreveport. Spokesperson for the WK Breast Health Center, Marilyn Joiner, says the new center offers northwest Louisiana convenient hours for patients to come for screening exams. She says detecting breast cancer at its earliest stages makes treatment more effective: