The St. Tammany Parish Coroner has ruled the death of the fire chief’s wife in July, as a homicide. Michelle Southern reports…:
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The Shreveport City Council voted 6 to 0 against a multi-million dollar project to build a sports complex and downtown arena. Emelie Gunn has more on why….
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Louisiana’s Senior U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy is a co-author of the last ditch effort by Republicans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Cassidy says this proposal takes Washington out of the decision making and instead each state receives an annual block grant to determine how to help individuals pay for health care….
Cassidy says the legislation also repeals individual and employer mandates that are part of the Affordable Care Act and it gets rid of the medical device tax. The Republican says their proposal also eliminates the inequity in which three states receive 37-percent of Obamacare funds…
Senators Lindsey Graham, Dean Heller and Ron Johnson are the fellow co-authors. Meanwhile, Democrat Bernie Sanders is proposing to expand Medicare to cover all U-S residents. Graham says their approach of the block grant funding to the states gives the power back to the patients
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The St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s Office have located a brother and sister wanted in connection with the death of a woman who was 8 months pregnant. Major Ginny Higgins says 29-year-old Mark Trimble and his 32-year-old sister Toni have not been charged with anything but are now in custody. She says this is a homicide investigation.
The victim, 24-year-old Ashley Nicole Meche, was found dead Tuesday afternoon. Higgins says Mark Trimble was located in the Loreauville area of St. Martin Parish and Toni Trimble was found of in the Bayou Fuselier area. She says the investigation is ongoing into what happened to pregnant victim.
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A homeowner shot and killed an alleged intruder in LaPlace last night. St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff Mike Tregre says the homeowner told detectives he heard voices in his yard and went to investigate. Tregre says when he opened the back door, he was face-to-face with the intruder
Tregre says no charges have been filed against the homeowner and the whole episode was captured on the home’s video surveillance camera…
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The entire Shreveport City Council voted no to a multi-million dollar project to build a sports complex and downtown arena. Councilman Oliver Jenkins says he voted against the Cross Bayou Project because there was not a lot of visible public support. He hopes they can go back to the drawing board because partnering with a Tom Benson company is a great opportunity.
Jenkins says 30 million of the city’s dollars would be used along with 139 million in private finances. He says they would like to present this project to the public in a different light because many people didn’t know the project could bring in a major G-league basketball team.
Jenkins says surprisingly, there was not much support from the business community. He credits the failing to pass this project to the public not having faith in government’s decisions.
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The St. Tammany Parish Coroner has ruled the death of the fire chief’s wife in July, as a homicide. The body of Nanette Krentel, wife of Fire District 12 Chief Stephen Krentel, was discovered in the rubble of the couple’s home which had burned to the ground on July 7th. Coroner Charles Preston said it was determined from the start Mrs. Krentel died from a gunshot wound…:
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The Sheriff’s Office said in a media advisory that it does not necessarily support the coroner’s conclusion, and will provide an update on the investigation during a news conference tomorrow. Preston says, following an initial autopsy, the remains were sent to the LSU FACES Lab…:
Preston says three autopsies were conducted on the body, and those along with the report from LSU all reached the same conclusion. He says they wanted to give this case the utmost attention and thoroughness…: