A Monroe man shot two Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s deputies when they attempted to serve him a felony warrant this morning. Sheriff Jay Russell says the deputies arrived at the home of 26-year-old Rickie Wade, Jr. when they were notified he was in the back of the house. He says one deputy went through the home and the other went around the outside of the house.
Russell says one deputy was shot in the leg, and the other near his face.
Based on the tax revenues available, it appears TOPS will only be funded at 70-percent, which means recipients of the state funded scholarship program will have to pay a portion of their tuition for the first time. Appropriations Chairman Cameron Henry says he’s comfortable with how the legislature addressed funding for TOPS…
Residents in northwest Louisiana will now have access to revolutionary hi-tech methods for breast cancer detection, as new state-of-the-art breast imaging center is opening today in Shreveport. Marilyn Joiner is the spokeswoman for the WK Breast Health Center. She says doctors there will use 3D technology which lets them do a mammogram and a biopsy at the same time…:
The American Cancer Society recommends women over 40 get yearly breast cancer exams.
Beginning August 1, assaulting a police officer will be a felony, no matter what kind of weapon is used. West Monroe Senator Mike Walsworth says under the previous law, assaulting an officer with anything other than a gun was a misdemeanor. He says this new law expands that language to include the use of any weapon in the felony, not just a firearm.