14 years ago today, Hurricane Rita made landfall in southwest Louisiana just four weeks after Katrina ravaged the southeast portion of the state. State climatologist Barry Keim says 95% of homes and businesses in Cameron Parish were destroyed and combined with the damage sustained by Hurricane Katrina in the weeks earlier, much of the Louisiana coastline was left devastated.
Cut 11 (09) “…state of Louisiana.”
Rita produced a storm surge of 17.8 feet.
New data shows 27,000 more kids living in poverty in Louisiana from 2013 to 2017 than the previous five year period. Annie E. Casey Foundation Associate Director Scot Spencer says concentrated poverty can trap families in inescapable multi-generational cycles.
Cut 5 (10) “…in concentrated poverty.”
A Shreveport nursing home social worker is under arrest for stealing a nurse’s identity to log over 1,000 hours of work as an LPN. 59-year-old Sandra Martin was already being paid more than the facility’s licensed nurses in her current position, and Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Detective Mike King says they suspect she posed as a nurse to cash in on some overtime opportunities.
Upon being arrested, King says Martin admitted to working as a nurse, but refused to answer further questions and demanded a lawyer.
Two Thibodeaux residents allegedly stole their grandmother’s identity and used it to go on a spending spree racking up over 5,000 dollars’ worth of bills. The two face serious charges as a result of the alleged scheme.
That’s State Police Senior Trooper Jesse LaGrange.