Former Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham defended his agency’s use of gulf oil spill recovery money. A state audit claims there were extensive financial problems within L-D-W-F while Barham led the state agency. Barham says the department used the money to make sure seafood was safe after the BP oil spill..
cut 13 (10) “….a fish”
Barham made the comments in front of the Legislative Audit Advisory Council.

A Go Fund me page has been set for Michael Louviere. He’s the Westwego police officer who was fatally shot in a double homicide last Friday. His good friend, Reese d’Aquin says the goal is to raise 300-thousand dollars to help Louviere’s family…
cut 7 (11) “…leave behind”

A Carencro man is facing charges for disposing used oil into state waters. Department of Environmental Quality spokesperson Greg Langley says 41-year-old Roshell Darjean changed the oil in an 18-wheeler and poured between 5 and 10 gallons of oil into a ditch that drains into Bayou Carencro.
Cut 15 (12) “or both”

There’s a group of LSU engineering students in California for a competition to see how fast their pod can travel inside a vacuum tube. Many of the pods in this compeition could travel 500 to 600 miles. LSU faculy adviser Aly-Mousaad Aly is proud of the student’s work…
cut 11 (12) “….transportation’