Thirty-two-year-old Hannah Cormier from Jennings bond is set at one-million-dollars after she was charged with second-degree murder for allegedly leaving her 10-month-old daughter in a car for two hours while she worked a shift at Wendy’s. Jennings Police Chief Danny Semmes…
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Semmes calls it a complex case that resulted in the murder charge.

43-year-old Anthony Hughes is recovering after getting shot near Bossier High School’s football stadium as a Spirit Event was taking place last night. Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office Lt. Matt Gaydos says Hughes got into an altercation with some juveniles during the event, leading to a fight in the parking lot. Gaydos says 32-year-old Marcus Kelly shot Hughes and then the two were involved in a car crash…
Cut 3 (10) “…back of Kelly’s vehicle”
Kelly faces several charges including attempted second-degree murder.

State Superintendent of Education Dr. Cade Brumley’s Let Teachers Teach policy package is being considered by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education which is meeting today and tomorrow. Brumley says one of the goals of the new education policies is giving effective educators more freedom over lesson planning, as currently…
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Brumley says the policies also tighten student discipline, giving teachers the right to have a student removed from the classroom immediately when their behavior prevents instruction.

On the first night of the Democratic National Convention, a woman from Baton Rouge told the crowd at the D-N-C about her inability to get medical treatment while miscarrying because of the state’s near-total abortion ban. Kaitlyn Joshua was denied care in 2022….
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Republican Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murril says there’s nothing in the state’s law that prohibits emergency care for someone having a miscarriage or any emergency situation during pregnancy.

A report from the Public Affairs Research Council finds public school enrollment has declined by five percent over the last four years. PAR President Steve Procopio says the numbers are concerning…
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Procopio says a declining population and more parents turning to home schooling are two reasons for the decline.

The state is asking for expansion of harvest opportunities for black bellied whistling ducks. Sportsmen and farmers say these birds need to be better controlled and as they are showing up in larger numbers and earlier in the year and disappear before the regular season begins. LDWF Secretary Madison Sheahan estimates they cause 500-thousand to one-million dollars worth of damage to rice farmers every year…
cut 6 (09) “….grain elevators”
Sheahan says their letter to the U-S Fish and Wildlife Service asks for the ability to establish harvest opportunities during the early September teal season.

Governor Jeff Landry is in northwest Louisiana today. He’s set to speak at the Bossier City Chamber luncheon at 11:30 and then he’ll attend a ground breaking ceremony for the long awaited Jimmie Davis Bridge replacement project. That bridge connects south Bossier City and Shreveport.

The Jennings Police Department has charged 32-year-od Hannah Cormier with second degree murder and cruelty to juveniles for leaving her 10-month old child in a hot car for two hours while she performed a shift at Wendy’s last week. Cormier said it was a terrible accident. Jennings Police have not released details on what led to the charges.

The Council for A Better Louisiana says several indicators they keep track of show Louisiana’s wellbeing is trending downwards. Colleen Crain has more…
Cut 2 (34) “…I’m Colleen Crain.”

57 delegates from Louisiana are in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. New Orleans Representative Mandie Landry is one of those delegates and she says she’s proud to support Democratic presidential presumptive nominee Kamala Harris and her campaign promises…
cut 14 (12) “…get that done”

Governor Jeff Landry held a press conference today to announce the launch of the largest broadband expansion program in the history of Louisiana. One-point-three billion dollars from the federal infrastructure law passed in 2021 will be used to expand broadband to 140-thousand locations, including 100-thousand homes. Director of the Office of Broadband Development and Connectivity Veneeth Iyengar….
cut 8 (12) “…behind me here”

Governor Landry says the state is embarking on the largest broadband expansion program in the state’s history with the launch of Gumbo 2.0. This program will distribute one-point-three billion dollars in federal money to expand broadband. Director of the Office of Broadband Development and Connectivity Veneeth Iyengar predicts the digital divide will be eliminated in the next couple of years…
cut 6 (11) “…first to do it”

We are in the middle of August and there are no tropical storm and hurricane threats to the Gulf of Mexico in what is expected to be a very active season. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says dusty air from the Sahara Dessert that’s over the Atlantic Ocean is helping to suppress storm activity…
cut 4 (06) “…whole season”
This is season has produced five named storms and the Colorado State Hurricane Forecast team is predicting 23 named storms this year.

Louisiana’s 57 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are in Chicago where they’ll formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee. New Orleans Congressman Troy Carter says there is an electricity in Chicago as every walk of life is attending the D-N-C…
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President Joe Biden will speak tonight.

Marketwatch-dot-com has ranked Louisiana number one for the highest auto insurance rates in the country. Louisiana House Speaker Phillip DeVillier says…
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Devillier expects several meetings will take place this year to come up with an auto insurance reform agenda that can be voted on during a possible special session early next year.

The Jennings Police Department is charging the mother of a ten-month old child that was left in a hot car for an hour and a half last week with second-degree murder and one count of cruelty to juveniles. Thirty-two-year-old Hannah Faith Cormier was arrested yesterday. Details on what led to the charges are expected to be discussed during a press conference today held by Jennings Police Chief Danny Semmes.

New Orleans Representative Mandie Landry and many other Democrats from Louisiana and across the country are in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. Landry says she supported President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, but says she’s more hopeful about the current nominee Vice President Kamala Harris…
Cut 13 (10) “…polar opposite.”
During a campaign rally this past weekend in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump accused the vice president of being a communist and fascist.

Governor Jeff Landry is holding a press conference in the next hour to announce the launch of Gumbo 2.0 which will use one-point-three billion dollars in federal money to bring high-speed internet to areas still lacking it. Marksville Representative Daryl Deshotel has been a big proponent of such an effort…
cut 6 (05) “…close the digital divide”
Senator Bill Cassidy says GUMBO 2.0 will create 8,000 to 10,000 new jobs, increase the state’s GDP by $1.3 billion, and generate $2 to 3 billion in new revenue for Louisiana companies.

Marketwatch-dot-com has ranked Louisiana number one for the highest auto insurance rates in the country. Louisiana House Speaker Phillip DeVillier says…
cut 11 (08) “…we have”
Devillier expects several meetings will take place this year to come up with an auto insurance reform agenda.

Governor Jeff Landry will hold a press conference at 11 AM today to announce the launch of Gumbo 2.0 which will put into action 1.3 million dollars in federal money to expand broadband access to 100-thousand homes, most of those in rural parishes. Marksville Representative Daryl Deshotel says Gumbo 2.0 expands on what’s already been done with Gumbo 1.0…
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Gumbo 2.0 is also expected to create between eight to ten thousand jobs.

The Council for a Better Louisiana says 16 of the 35 indicators they use to measure well-being in Louisiana are trending downward. CABL President Barry Erwin says several of those indicators deal with the economy and healthcare…
cut 9 (12) “….help us make progress”
Population loss and outmigration are a continuing problem, but the state’s violent crime rate and prison recidivism showed improvement.

57 delegates from Louisiana are in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. New Orleans Representative Mandie Landry is one of those delegates and she says she’s proud to support Democratic presidential presumptive nominee Kamala Harris and her campaign promises…
cut 14 (12) “…get that done”

A top initiative for lawmakers heading into 2025 is figuring out a way to lower auto insurance rates. Several Louisiana legislators were upset Governor Landry vetoed a bill in the last regular session that could have lowered judgements awarded to plaintiffs in a car crash. Landry says he was looking out for the consumer. House Speaker Phillip Devillier says the vetoing of that bill brought awareness to the insurance crisis…
cut 12 (08) “…insurance reform”