Senator John Kennedy requests the President extend the deadline for REAL ID another year, citing concerns not nearly enough people will have the new national ID by October 1st. REAL ID was passed 15 years ago, and Kennedy says he wants to use the year to find out whether or not it’s even needed. So far, he says he’s not convinced.
125 million people are estimated to not have the REAL ID yet.
Baton Rouge police have arrested the parents of an 11-week-old infant after their son was brought to the Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Thursday with horrific injuries that appeared to be from abuse. McNeely says the hospital called the police and alerted them of the possible crime by the child’s parents Cole Autry and Rachel Flores.
A 64-year-old man is arrested on a charge of bigamy that occurred in the Alexandria area, where a man went and married another woman before divorcing his old wife. Rapides Parish Sheriff Lt. Stephen Phillips says Michael Glenn Rennier’s crime is not something law enforcement takes lightly.
Phillips says the wife had documentation of a Vegas marriage.
A motorcyclist was killed in a fatal crash with a Silverado in West St. Charles Parish yesterday in a suspected speeding incident. Impairment is unknown at this time, but State Police Trooper Monroe Dillon says it appears the victim may been driving recklessly when he struck the truck.
Dillon identified the victim as 33-year-old Christopher Williams of Killona.