LSU star player Angel Reese is heading to Chicago to play for the Sky. Jeff Palermo has the story..
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A petition to recall the embattled St. Tammany Parish Coroner has been filed with the Secretary of State’s office. Brooke Thorington has more.
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An Angel is heading to the Sky. The Chicago Sky selected LSU women’s basketball star Angel with the seventh overall pick in last night’s WNBA draft. Reese says she had a feeling Chicago would select her after positive conversations with Sky head coach Teresa Weatherspoon…
Weatherspoon played for LSU coach Kim Mulkey when she was an assistant coach at Louisiana Tech.
Reese led LSU to its first national championship in women’s basketball in 2023 and this past season she was named the SEC Player of the Year. The All-American could have returned to LSU for one more season, but Reese says she’s ready for a new challenge…
The W-N-B-A begins its season next month. Reese says she’s looking forward to spending her summers in Chicago…
Reese is the first LSU women’s basketball player selected in the first round of the WNBA draft since 2012 when Washington took LaSondra Barrett.
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After a bizarre break-in at Jennings High School, before classes began on Monday, police have 37-year-old Dillion Champagne in custody. Jennings Police Chief Danny Semmes says Champagne stole two vehicles, followed a custodian in the school, and held two employees at gunpoint, fortunately, no one was hurt.
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Semmes says he can’t imagine the fear that the two employees experienced when Champagne confronted them with a gun and stole the keys to one of the employees’ cars.
After a 12-hour multi-law enforcement manhunt, Champagne was located thanks to a tip that he was seen on State Highway 97 about a mile from the school near the Jaenke Bridge.
Champagne faces 18 charges ranging from criminal damage to property to attempted armed robbery and is being held in the Jefferson Davis Parish Jail.
Classes at Jennings High School were canceled Monday but have resumed today.
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A recall petition has been officially filed to remove St. Tammany Parish Coroner Christopher Tape on the grounds he’s unfit for office. Tape was charged with six counts of child sexual assault in New Mexico but was never tried on a technicality. Dillard University Political Science Professor Robert Collins says recalls are extremely difficult and rarely successful.
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Tape ran unopposed for the coroner, and it was an investigative reporter who brought his questionable background to light.
Dillard says that obtaining enough voter signatures is an expensive undertaking and challenging.
Dillard says the most efficient way to obtain enough signatures, in this case, the threshold is 35,000 signatures, is to mail voters affidavits, have them sign them, and return them in a postage-paid envelope.
A recent recall effort to remove New Orleans Mayor LaTonya was unsuccessful.
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The House Governmental Affairs Committee began discussion today on holding a constitutional convention. The bill’s author, New Iberia Representative, Beau Beaullieu, says the goal is to streamline the state constitution, which is one of the longest in the nation…
Supporters of a constitutional convention say they want to move items to state law so legislators can have more flexibility during difficult budget times. The committee is planning to discuss the idea more tomorrow.
The constitutional convention will comprise of all 144 state lawmakers, plus 27 delegates chosen by the governor. The convention would begin May 20th and end June 3rd, but it could be as extended as late as July 15th.
Covington Representative Mark Wright believes holding a convention is a great idea and any changes to the constitution would need voter approval in November…
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The state’s last constitutional convention was in 1992, but it was unsuccessful. The current constitution was written in 1973. Several lawmakers have questions on how the constitutional convention would work. New Orleans Representative Candace Newell says starting the constitutional convention on May 20th when the regular session is scheduled to end June 3rd can cause issues…
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More discussion on the constitutional convention will take place tomorrow in House Governmental Affairs.