Democrat Justin Dewitt plans to run against Republican incumbent Garret Graves for Louisiana’s 6th district U.S. Representative seat. Emelie Gunn has more…
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An anonymous donor gave an astonishing one-million-dollar gift to the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Kelley Ray has more…
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A 32-year-old Lafayette man faces five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to using President Trump’s social security number to try and access his tax returns. Jeff Palermo has more…
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Democrat Justin Dewitt of Baton Rouge has announced he plans to run against Republican Congressman Garret Graves next year. Dewitt was born in Sulphur and moved to Zachary, where he graduated from Zachary High School. He says he’s running because Graves does not represent the interests of the 6th Congressional District.
As a victim on last year’s historic flood, he says he plans to seriously address flood control. Dewitt says he’s only accepting individual contributions for his campaign.
Dewitt currently works as a land surveyor and is openly gay. He says he’s not running for office on the platform that he’s a gay candidate.
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An anonymous donor gave one-million-dollars to the University of Louisiana at Monroe. It was given as part of the SOAR Capital Campaign to support the School of Education at ULM. Development Officer of the fund raising effort Morgan Patrick says the donation gets them closer to their 54-million-dollar goal…
Dr. Eric Pani, Vice President of Academic Affairs is awed that the donation was given by a retired teacher in the Monroe area who is also a ULM alum. It will help with students who want to attend the university to become an educator…
ULM President Dr. Nick Bruno says it’s amazing that someone in their community would want to invest so much into young persons and their futures…
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A 32-year-old Lafayette man faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to using President Donald Trump’s social security number to try and obtain a copy of the president’s federal tax information. Legal Analyst Tim Meche says Jordan Hamlett will likely get probation or very little time. He says no harm was done by Hamlett’s actions.
Meche says if this case were taken to trial, he believes the jury would’ve taken sympathy on Hamlett. He says everyone is curious to see what the President’s taxes look like.
Meche says even though Hamlett did use President Trump’s social security number, which is private, he was only trying to do what the public has been asking for.
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A Bossier Parish teacher has been arrested after allegedly stealing prescription drugs from a fellow teacher. Lt. Bill Davis with the Sheriff’s Office says before school started a Princeton Elementary School, 39-year-old Robyn Edmonds stole medication from her colleague’s purse.
Bossier Parish School officials say Edmonds has been placed on leave. Davis says the other teacher had a legal prescription for the medication. He says anytime an educator is arrested for something like this, it typically makes news because it’s such an anomaly.
Edmonds is charged with simple theft and possession of a Schedule IV controlled dangerous substance.
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Two time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks is coming to Baton Rouge early next year to star in a World War Two era film entitled “Greyhound”. Louisiana Economic Development’s Don Pierson says it will employ over 250 persons in Baton Rouge…
Pre production started this week and crews are expected to film aboard the U-S-S Kidd on the Mississippi River and other Baton Rouge locations next March. Pierson says filming in Louisiana has seen a downturn in recent years, but remains confident the Governor’s tax incentives will bring more filmmakers to Louisiana…
Governor Edwards signed into law last summer several enhancements to Louisiana’s film incentive program providing a five percent tax credit for any films produced outside of New Orleans. Pierson says this movie production is just the beginning of great incentives for Hollywood to consider Louisiana…
Six projects altogether are expected to shoot in 2018 in Louisiana.