Three men have been arrested in connection with last week’s shooting death of Shreveport Police Officer Chateri Payne. Kevin Barnhart has the story
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Louisiana Association of Business and Industry says they are preparing to fight back against any attempts to raise revenue to fund the Governor’s proposed 1,000 dollar teacher raises. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Three men have been arrested in connection with last week’s shooting death of Shreveport Police Officer Chateri Payne. Payne’s boyfriend and father of her young child, 26-year-old Treveon Anderson, claims he was home when he heard gunshots and ran outside to shoot at a suspect. But Police Chief Ben Raymond says evidence later debunked that story.
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Raymond says two other men arrested, 22-year-old Lawrence Pierre and 38-year-old Glenn Frierson, are considered accomplices. He adds more arrests are possible.
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Raymond says the three arrested are currently facing second degree murder charges. He credits the work of all agencies involved in the captures.
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For weeks we have seen gas prices on the decline but now they are heading back in the other direction. AAA Fuel Analyst Don Redman says the price at the pump nearly jumped three cents overnight…
Redman says prices are typically their lowest around this time of year because of a healthy supply of gasoline paired with low demand but crude oil prices have been rising…
Redman says even with the price of crude oil rising you shouldn’t expect any huge jumps in prices until the start of summer…
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The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry says they are preparing to fight back against any attempts to raise revenue to fund the Governor’s proposed 1,000 dollar teacher, and 500 dollar school support personnel pay raise. President Stephen Waguespack, on AM Baton Rouge, says unnamed leaders have mentioned their support a pay raise tax.
Governor Edwards says no new taxes will be needed to fund the pay raise, which he estimates can be paid for by additional revenue from a surging economy.
Waguespack says he supports some form of a raise for teachers, but did not confirm supporting the raise for support personnel. Still, he says Louisiana teachers actually fare better than their counterparts when you factor in the total compensation package offered.
Louisiana Federation of Teachers spokesperson Les Landon could not confirm that claim.
Instead of a flat raise for all Bayou State teachers, Waguespack, the business lobbyist, supports utilizing the same amount of funds, or fewer, to reward teachers who he feels perform better than their peers.
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says she was only kidding when she said “Anybody but the Saints” when asked, who she would like to see in the Super Bowl. Bottoms addressed the minor controversy at a pre-Super Bowl press conference for the February 3rd game…
New Orleans City Councilman Jay Banks stood up for Saints fans by saying the Atlanta mayor is still upset her team blew a 25-point lead in the 2017 Super Bowl. Bottoms says it was a just when she said she didn’t want the Saints in the Super Bowl, but Saints have to understand where she’s coming from…
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Bottoms says she wants to make it clear, she welcomes fans from all 32 teams to Atlanta for the Super Bowl….