An 18-year-old Baton Rouge teenager who said God instructed him to drive his vehicle at a high rate of speed into another car, killing the person in that vehicle, is now at the state’s mental health hospital. The attorney for Jack Jordan, James Manasseh, says his client had good grades in school and no previous criminal history, but all of sudden he has a severe mental illness…
cut 12 (10) “…quite as easily”
Jordan is facing a second-degree murder charge and his next court date is in November.

The Reason Foundation ranks Louisiana’s highway system 34th in the nation. Lead author Baruch Feigenbaum says the condition of the state’s roads is among the worst in the country…
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Louisiana also ranks 44th worst for structurally deficient bridges.

Two people died, including a two-year-old in a two-vehicle wreck early Sunday morning in St. Landry Parish on the I-49 south service road. State Police believe 48-year-old Michael Shane Guidry of Carencro was impaired. 35-year-old Lacy Leger of Sunset was killed, so was a two-year-old child, who was restrained in a child seat. State Trooper Thomas Gossen says never drive impaired and always ensure every occupant is properly restrained…
cut 9 (11) “….possible”
Charges are pending against Guidry.

Governor John Bel Edwards says he will include 85-million dollars into the state’s construction budget next year for a new I-10 Calcasieu River Bridge. State Transportation Secretary Shawn Wilson says despite the need for a new bridge, the current one is safe…
cut 15 (09) “….bridge we have”