A jury recommends the death penalty for 57-year-old Kevin Daigle, convicted in the “cold-blooded”2015 ambush shooting death of a State Trooper in Calcasieu Parish. The state has not executed someone since 2010 because it says it can’t obtain lethal injection chemicals. Calcasieu District Attorney John DeRosier says the death penalty is law, and he intends to pursue it regardless.
A judge will give a final ruling on Daigle’s sentence in October.
People around Louisiana are surveying the aftermath of Hurricane Barry today. Many are feeling they dodged a bullet. Director of the St. Mary Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness David Naquin says while many were spared from flooding, there were a few homes that were not so lucky.
Thousands remain without power.
Longtime Ruston Daily Leader sports editor Buddy Davis passed away over the weekend at the age of 72. Davis was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2009 and enshrined into the Louisiana Tech Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013. The press box at Joe Aillet Stadium is named after him. Louisiana Tech sports information director Malcolm Butler says David had the ability to make everyone feel like a hall of famer…
Cut 12 (10) “…made up Buddy.”
Davis spent five decades covering sports in Lincoln Parish.
Police are hunting suspects in the murder of Baton Rouge African American History Museum founder Sadie Roberts-Joseph, who was found dead in the trunk of a car from asphyxiation. The Capital City icon, who was found dead three days ago, was a celebrated and beloved member of the Baton Rouge community, and Baton Rouge Police spokesperson Sgt. L’Jean McKneely says her death is tragedy…