Hilton’s bond is now $307,500.
Colorado State University upgrades its hurricane season forecast from below-average to near-normal. Jeff Palermo has more…
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State Police say they have arrested the man who allegedly struck and killed a 12-year-old boy during a police chase. Michelle Southern reports.
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The team at Colorado State University upgrades their forecast for the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, which begins today. In April, CSU called for a slightly below average season, but that has since been upgraded just in time for the start of the season. State Climatologist Barry Keim explains why the forecast now calls for 13 named storms.
Keim adds that sea surface temperatures are running normal to slightly above normal, which adds fuel to developing hurricanes. The CSU forecast calls for six hurricanes, with two of them becoming major. He says Louisiana has not seen a hurricane make landfall in four years.
CSU finds there is a 32 percent chance a hurricane will make landfall on the Gulf Coast. There’s a 55 percent chance for landfall for the entire US coast. Keim says the US has gone 11 straight seasons without a major hurricane landfall. He says the last one was Wilma in 2005.
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State Police say they have arrested the man who allegedly struck and killed a 12-year-old boy during a police chase. Trooper Bryan Lee says they were called to investigate at the request of BRPD when officers were conducting a possible narcotics operation…:
The child is identified as Sammy Lee. The suspect, 32 year old Joshual Hilton of Baton Rouge, is charged with manslaughter, reckless operation, and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle in the incident that resulted in the death of the juvenile. Lee says investigators are reconstructing the scene where the little boy was run over…:
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Hilton’s bond is $307,500. Lee says Hilton was injured after reportedly being shot by police, and that incident is being handled by LSP as a separate investigation where additional charges are pending. He says this is a senseless tragedy…:
(Hilton was arrested in September of last year also after taking police officers on a pursuit when he was busted with an assortment of drugs and cash at his home.)
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An elementary school in Allen Parish was ravaged by a massive fire overnight. Deputy Chief Brant Thompson with the state Fire Marshal’s Office says the fire began at Oakdale Elementary around 4 p.m. yesterday. He says it took some time to get the fire under control, and hot spots remained until this morning.
About 80 percent of the building was reportedly destroyed by the fire. Thompson says they are surveying the damage and moving in heavy equipment to excavate portions of the collapsed building. He says they are still investigating the origin and cause of the fire.
Thompson says this is a hard hit to the Oakdale community. The school is home to 700 students. He says currently the school was already out for the summer.
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The Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man and his girlfriend for aggravated assault after the couple allegedly attacked the man’s mother with a cast iron skillet. Chief Deputy Mike Haley says Kurtis Strong and Venus Camacho, both 38, were playing a table game with the Strong’s mother and her friend when Camacho and the mom got into an argument.
Haley says Strong then grabbed his mother by the neck and threw her on the ground. He says the mother’s friend eventually pulled Strong off of his mother but he struck her in the chest.
Doctors say the mother was severely injured in the attack. Haley says this is extremely disrespectful.
Strong is charged with two counts of aggravated battery and domestic abuse battery by strangulation. Camacho is charged with aggravated battery.
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Baton Rouge Representative Franklin Foil ends his effort to raise the minimum GPA required for high school students to receive the TOPS scholarship. Foil told Senate Education a task force will be formed to examine TOPS and he’ll wait to see their findings before pursing his legislation…
Foil’s bill, which was approved by the House, would have raised the minimum GPA from 2.50 to 2.75 to receive the TOPS scholarship. It would have gone into effect in four years. Foil says he proposed the bill, because the cost of the taxpayer scholarship continues to escalate…