The gubernatorial candidates will be on the UL-Lafayette campus tonight for a televised debate that will be shown on Louisiana Public Broadcasting. The Council for a Better Louisiana organized tonight’s debate at 7 PM and CABL President Barry Erwin says the questions will come from a panel of reporters and the candidates will get to ask each other questions…
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Erwin hopes the candidates will provide comprehensive answers on the issues facing the state.
SeatGeek says Sunday night’s Saints/Cowboys showdown is the hottest selling ticket of the week, and one of the five hottest-selling tickets of the year. Seatgeek spokesperson Chris Leyden ticket prices for this game have been a rollercoaster, high at the start of the year, plummeting after the Drew Brees injury, and rebounding after Teddy Bridgewater led the team to a win over the Seahawks…
Baton Rouge Police arrest eight individuals and seize 15 guns during the filming of a rap video on a neighborhood street. Sergent L’Jean Mckneely says terrified neighbors called authorities after seeing a large group of men waving assault rifles…
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McKneely says they detained at least 15 individuals, arrested eight of them and seized five assault rifles, ten handguns and a small amount of narcotics.
Twenty-five years after the death of a newborn baby in Jeanerette, the Iberia Parish Sheriff deputies arrest a 50-year-old woman in the death of Baby Jane Doe. Major Wendell Raborn says DNA from the infant child matched a family member of Sonia Charles and follow up police work led deputies getting a DNA sample from Charles
Charles was booked into the Iberia Jail for First Degree Murder.