Twenty-one individuals from around the country have applied to become Louisiana’s next education superintendent. Jeff Palermo has more…
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31-year-old Mandy Rochelle was arrested after allegedly torching a home she was renting, while her three children were still inside. Investigators say Rochelle had just had an argument with her estranged husband prior to the arson, but that the husband was not currently at the home at the time of the fire. She was booked into the Jefferson Davis Parish Jail. Her three children are 12, 9, and six.
Louisiana Democrats are set to vote April 4th for their choice in the Democratic presidential primary, but LSU-Shreveport Poli Sci Professor Jeff Sadow says recent developments in the primary indicate the race will likely no longer be competitive by the time you go to cast a ballot. Sadow says today is Super Tuesday, and a likely insurmountable lead of delegates are likely to go to Senator Bernie Sanders.
Former VP Joe Biden, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg remain as the only other contenders in the race.
Farmers of soybeans and other crops beware, the LSU Ag Center predicts a larger than usual stinkbug menace for the upcoming season thanks to an unusually mild winter. LSU Entomologist Doctor Sebe Brown says it takes temperatures below 20-degrees to kill off the redbanded stink bug which is from South America.