Legislation fixing the duplication of benefits issue that’s impacted thousands of 2016 Louisiana flood victims from getting federal recovery grant dollars is heading to President Trump’s desk. Jeff Palermo has more..
It was a very emotional night outside of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center last night as hundreds showed up for vigil to remember LSU basketball player Wayde Sims. Wayde’s father, Wayne Sims, spoke at the gathering and says he hopes that others can learn something from his son’s death.
Cut 5 (10) “…somebody else’s life.”
Sims was fatally shot last Friday.
Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain is backing efforts to replace NAFTA with a new deal that would adjust some aspects of trade with Canada and Mexico. The state is an exporting powerhouse, and Strain says if approved, the new trade deal would lift some major Louisiana based corporations.
President Donald Trump supports the plan.
A 50-year-old Slaughter woman is headed to trial in Baton Rouge facing First Degree Murder charges in the death of her boyfriend Damian Skipper who she allegedly poisoned to death with barium in 2015. Baton Rouge DA Hillar Moore says Hale is a suspect in her husband’s 2016 death as well, something they’re looking into.
Cut 15 (11) “…to investigate.”
Hale was in line to collect 750,000 dollars of insurance money in that case.