A shooting in downtown Shreveport early Sunday morning left one dead and an officer injured. Kace Kieschnick reports.
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The lawyer representing Attorney General Liz Murrill calls the 16-count Orleans Parish grand jury indictment against her client a political witch hunt. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development is taking the next steps in building the I-49 Lafayette Connector. Officials signed a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. Deidra Druilhet with the DOTD says it is a required document evaluating the environmental impacts of a project.
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The Lafayette I-49 Connector project would extend the interstate five-and-a-half miles from I-10 to the Lafayette Regional Airport. Druilhet says the raised roadway will significantly improve the lives of residents in the region.
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The connector is part of a larger I-49 project to upgrade U.S. Highway 90 to interstate standards and improve the commute between Lafayette and the Gulf Coast and eventually New Orleans. Druilhet says Lafayette is part of one of the fastest-growing regions in the state.
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Druilhet says officials hope to conclude the environmental review process in January of 2027.
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A person was killed in the shooting of a Shreveport officer early Sunday morning. Police responded to a call about an altercation outside a downtown bar. Tim Huck is the business owner who alerted police and witnessed the event. He says four people were fighting in an alley next to the business when the officer stepped in.
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Huck says the officer’s bulletproof vest did its job, and her injuries are non-life-threatening. He says the shooter continued firing wildly after hitting the officer.
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The armed subject has been pronounced dead. Huck says two of the three others involved in the fight were arrested and the officer should be commended.
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Huck says he was involved in another fight earlier that night near a separate business.
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The lawyer for Attorney General Liz Murrill calls the 16-count Orleans Parish grand jury indictment against her client a political witch hunt. Laura Rodrigue says Murrill was simply doing her job in enforcing a law that the legislature had passed in consolidating the Orleans Parish clerks of court, noting that it was the only parish that had separate clerks for criminal and civil courts.
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Rodrigue says the way the grand jury went about its business in indicting Murrill is also very troubling.
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Rodrigue says if those allegations against the grand jury are corroborated, those are very illegal, since the grand jury is supposed to be operating in secret. And she says that would give Murrill great concern about Orleans Parish grand juries as a whole.
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Public and charter students in grades three through 12 are making record-breaking achievements in the classroom. State Education Superintendent Cade Brumley says this year’s LEAP scores set new standards for the state.
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That 36-percent of students who achieved Mastery or Advanced is the highest overall performance in the state’s history. Brumley says that’s especially notable, especially given what the state has been through in the seven years that he’s been the education superintendent.
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Brumley notes that these are the first LEAP results under the state’s Grow, Achieve and Thrive initiative.
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