A school administrator in Baton Rouge is accused of sexting a former teen student. Michelle Southern has that…:
===================
The LSU Ag Center has launched a statewide billboard campaign urging people to engage in a more healthy lifestyle. Michelle Southern has that…:
===================
The Baton Rouge Police Department says an assistant principal of a middle school is accused of exchanging naked pictures with a 15-year-old former student. Corporal L’Jean McKneely says the victim’s mother contacted police after finding her daughter’s Facebook account…:
McKneely says 42-year-old Edwin Chastang, who works as an administrator at Southeast Middle in Baton Rouge, was named the suspect. He says the mother contacted police about the crime and an official investigation was launched…:
CUT 4 (09) “when he was arrested”
Chastang is charged with indecent behavior with a juvenile and computer aided solicitation of a minor. McNeely says the teen girl had her phone taken away so she would use her mother’s phone in the middle of the night to access Facebook…:(Chastang has reportedly been suspended from work with pay.)
CUT 5 (09) “inappropriate pictures”
===================
The LSU Ag Center has launched a statewide billboard campaign urging people to engage in a more healthy lifestyle. Diane Sasser is the AgCenter director of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Educational Program. She says the first message that will be promoted is to eat more fruits and vegetables…:
CUT 6 (10) “physical activity”
Sasser says this effort also includes banners and posters that will be displayed in schools, stores and parish extension offices. She says the campaign will run for about a year and a half. Sasser says they will also be spreading messages about increasing activities together as a family…:
Sasser says by displaying these simple suggestions in places that people will see easily and frequently, the hope is that they will absorb the information and starting thinking about their own health habits…:
===================
State Police detectives are investigating a shooting that involved a Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s deputy. L-S-P Sergeant James Anderson says the shooting happened last night as a sheriff’s deputy was attempting to perform a traffic stop in Lake Charles on a 33-year-old woman from Sulphur, who did not cooperate
After the initial stop, the driver, Eveyln Dargin, sped away from the arresting officer and after a short pursuit she struck a patrol unit. Anderson says she then started driving towards another deputy who ordered the vehicle to stop and that deputy fired his weapon.
The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s office says Dargin was taken to a local hospital and her condition is unknown. She faces several charges, including attempted first degree murder of a police officer. Anderson says State Police is investigating the incident…
===================
Lafayette Congressman Charles Boustany files legislation that would give south Louisiana veterans the option to receive health care from a non V-A provider. Boustany says the federal government should pay for the care
CUT 12 (10) “finest care available”
Boustany says he filed the legislation because the Lafayette V-A clinic has admitted to crowded conditions and access problems for primary and mental care. He says veterans living in Lake Charles also lack adequate health care..
There’s another bill that would authorize new V-A clinics in Lafayette and Lake Charles. But Boustany says our veterans in those areas shouldn’t have to wait for the new clinics to open, so he wants to give them the option to receive care from non V-A provider
===================