Authorities say they now know what motivated an Alabama student to phone in a threat to Tiger stadium. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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It’s day 5 at the Hard Rock Hotel collapse site… New Orleans Fire Chief Tim McConnell says now the transition to recovery mode means reducing the risk responders take at the site as a further collapse is likely.
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The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s office charges a 71-year-old Robert Blair with two counts of first-degree murder for the 1989 deaths of his wife Isabelle Blair and her friend Marian Coutee. Lt Stephen Phillips says Robert Blair was responsible for the disappearances the two women after they found the vehicle the women were last seen in, in pond on property that once belonged to Robert Blair…
Phillips says a detective received new information, which led to a search of the pond…
A woman is arrested in Breaux Bridge for impersonating a police officer. 48-year-old Christina Macdonald is accused of initiating a traffic stop. Beaux Bridge Assistant Police Chief Terry Latiolais says impersonating an officer hurts the relationship between law enforcement and citizens.