One person is dead and three others injured following an early Army helicopter crash at Fort Polk. The names of the crew members have not yet been released and the cause remains under investigation. Governor Edwards has released a statement saying quote: “Our hearts are heavy after learning of this morning’s tragic crash and the loss of one soldier who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country and our state.”
Eight people were arrested and 15 guns seized after Baton Rouge rappers decided to shoot an unpermitted music video on a residential street. Matt Doyle has more.
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 thanks to DNA evidence they believe Sonia Charles placed her newborn child in a 55-gallon drum outside of a car wash in January of 1994.
Charles was booked into the Iberia Jail for First Degree Murder.
Census Bureau numbers show Louisiana’s poverty rate dropped from 19.7 percent in 2017 to 18.6 percent last year. That’s dropped Louisiana from the 2nd most impoverished state in the nation to the 3rd. Louisiana Budget Project Executive Director Jan Moller says it’s a great improvement, but we have a long way to go.
In 2018 poverty was defined as a single person making under 13,064 dollars a year or less, and a four-person household making 25,701 dollars a year or less.