Baton Rouge Judge Beau Higginbotham has sentenced former LSU student Matthew Naquin to five years in prison for his role in the hazing death of fraternity pledge Maxwell Gruver, who died from alcohol poisoning. But the judge suspended all but two and a half years and Naquin will have to perform one-thousand hours of community service.

Monday’s attempted ransomware attack on state computer systems results in the OMV remaining closed this morning. How often do these types of cyberattacks happen? Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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The St. Tammany Sheriff’s office is urging businesses to be on the lookout for counterfeit money after arresting two people, 44-year-old Kenyatta Meads and 46-year-old Lynn Pommier are accused of making phony bills. Captain Scott Lee…
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Meads is facing 191 counts of Monetary Instrument Abuse.

Two UL-Lafayette researchers say they’ve developed a system to predict epileptic seizures. Doctor Magdy Bayoumi (Mag-Dee Buy-oo-me) says they’ve invented a detection device that can be placed on a patient’s head like a swimcap and it scans brainwaves for suspicious activities…
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Bayoumi says the next step in the process is developing a way to bring the system to people who suffer from epilepsy.