An Advocate report accuses Attorney General Jeff Landry, known for his hardline stance on immigration, of bringing in Mexican workers to help build a plant in Cameron Parish…
cut 2 (32) “…I’m Matt Doyle”

Governor Edwards budget proposal for next fiscal year calls on the legislature to approve nearly a million dollars in pay raises for his staff, Cabinet secretaries and other high-level political appointees. Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne says these employees have not seen a raise since 2016.

State Police has identified the man fatally shot in yesterday’s police shooting in Bossier city. L-S-P says 42-year-old Jeremy Fox of Bossier City was shot after a struggle with an officer in the parking lot of the CenturyLink Center. Trooper Brent Hardy says the officer intervened because Fox tried to a carjack a vehicle belonging to a Bossier City permit inspector…
cut 15 (07) “…active and ongoing”
The carjacking victim had surgery on his should, but he’s expected to recover.

71-year-old Robert Blair is heading to Angola to serve a 40-year prison sentence for the 1989 disappearance of his wife, Isabelle and friend Marian Coutee. Blair was arrested in October and Rapides Parish Assistant District Attorney Christopher Bowman says Blair confessed to killing the two in self-defense, and the victims’ families were fine with the sentencing…
cut 8 (12) “…40 years”