The Supreme Court sides with a St. Tammany landowner who argued a portion of his land was wrongfully deemed critical habitat for the dusky gopher frog, by forcing the lower courts to re-evaluate their previous decision. The landowner’s lawyer, Mark Miller says previously, lower courts ruled in favor of US Fish and Wildlife’s broad lee-way to set aside land for certain species.
Cut 6, 8 seconds, the frog
In his first public comments since video and pictures were released of a postgame scuffle following the Tigers seven overtime loss to Texas A-and-M, Coach Ed Orgeron calls LSU analyst Steve Kragthorpe a good man. Video shows a credentialed member of the Aggies staff shoving Kragthorpe, who suffers from Parkinson’s Disease…
The videos that surfaced identified Cole Fisher, the nephew of Aggie Coach Jimbo Fisher, shoving Kragthorpe in the chest.
The West Monroe Police Department have arrested a person of interest during the course of a suspicious death investigation. 31-year-old Shomari Clemons facing charges of mutilating, disinterring the human remains of his grandmother. Sgt. CJ Beck says Clemons appears to have made cuts to one of the body’s arms.
Cut 12 (13) “…under that statute.”
Beck says Clemons could not state how the deceased received the postmortem injuries.
Congressman Ralph Abraham says soybean farmers are having issues with accessing the Market Facilitation Program, originally designed to help farmers, because of the recent congestion with crop elevators. He says the only step being take right now, is a bill that he’s pushing that alters the payment structure for the MFP.
Cut 10 (13) “…recoup their losses.”
Abraham says at $5 million, the package to help soybean farmers he’s pushing is small in the bigger picture.