While the Republican Senate candidates can’t agree on holding a debate, the Democratic candidates all got together for a debate in Baton Rouge. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Forty-four years after a 16-year-old girl was killed, her alleged killers have finally been arrested. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Governor Jeff Landy is fed up with violent crime and continues to blame judges for not imposing the proper punishment on young offenders. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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While the Republican candidates for U.S. Senate cannot decide when or where to hold a debate, the three Democratic candidates held a debate in Baton Rouge. Jamie Davis, Gary Crockett and Nick Albares spent 45 minutes answering questions on a wide variety of topics. On the topic of health care, Albares said he would undo certain provisions of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that he says were structured to make the next Congress look bad.
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On affordability, Davis said he would more than double the minimum wage, which has been $7.25 an hour since July of 2009.
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All three took aim at the Trump administration’s immigration policies, with Crockett noting a stark difference between Trump and prior administrations.
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A bill heading to the House floor seeks to give the governor and statewide elected officials a significant pay raise. Harahan Representative John Illg is proposing that the governor’s salary be 35 percent of the average base pay for Louisiana’s university system presidents, and for other statewide elected officials, it would be 30 percent…
Currently, the governor makes 130 thousand dollars a year. Other statewide elected officials are making 115-thousand dollars. Illg says the salaries for statewide elected officials have not been raised in 20 years….
Under Illg’s measure. The governor would see his salary increase by 52-thousand dollars to a little more than 182-thousand dollars a year. The other statewide elected officials would increase by 41-thousand dollars to 156-thousand dollars. The pay hikes will take effect with the next term, which starts in 2028.
Illg says by tying the pay of the governor and statewide elected officials with university system president pay, the legislature will never have to take a vote on it again….
Illg is also proposing a daily stipend of 178 dollars for lawmakers when they travel outside the district for legislative work outside of the legislative session. The House Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved the bill and it still needs full House and Senate approval.
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Forty-four years after 16-year-old Roxanne Sharp was raped and murdered in Covington, State Police have arrested four men in connection with that murder. Trooper Marc Gremillion says the February 1982 murder remained unsolved for decades, until Charles Dowdy’s podcast “Who Killed Roxanne” spurred interest in the case.
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Gremillion says that renewed interest helped investigators generate new leads and ultimately led them to four men – three of whom were 20 and the other one 18 at the time of the murder.
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Perry Taylor and Carlos Cooper were already behind bars on unrelated charges. Billy Williams was arrested in Covington, and Darrell Spell was arrested in Dayton, Ohio. Gremillion says he hopes after all these years, the arrests of the four men brings a sense of closure and healing to Roxanne’s family.
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Governor Jeff Landry calls last week’s fatal mass shooting at the Louisiana Mall unacceptable and is pointing the finger at parents and the judicial system for the violence that continues to take place involving young people. Landry says the failure of this situation starts at home…
Baton Rouge Police have arrested 17-year-old Markell Lee and charged him with first degree murder and five counts of attempted first-degree murder. Authorities are searching for a second suspected gunman.
Landry is calling on state lawmakers to look at increasing the penalties to make sure violent young criminals are locked up…
Baton Rouge Police Chief TJ Morse says Lee has an extensive history in the state’s juvenile court system. Landry continues to make claims that judges in the juvenile court system are not upholding their obligation to ensure justice…
Landry is urging lawmakers to pass legislation that would hold judges accountable if they fail to impose the appropriate punishment on a convicted felon.
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LSU sophomore wide receiver Winston Watkins is one of four players who followed coach Lane Kiffin to Baton Rouge from Ole Miss. Watkins says that he and Kiffin have had a special bond since he recruited him in high school, which led to his decision to play for the Tigers.
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As a freshman at Ole Miss, Watkins caught 26 passes for 373 yards and a touchdown. Now that he’s at LSU, Watkins says he’s aiming to make a significant leap in year two and put the nation on notice.
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Three of the eight Saints draft picks were receivers as they provided starting quarterback Tyler Shough with more options in the passing. In the first round, New Orleans took Jordyn Tyson from Arizona State, and in the fourth round, they made an interesting pick in six-foot-three Bryce Lane from North Dakota State. General Manager Mickey Loomis…
In the sixth round, the Saints took former LSU wide receiver Barion Brown, who is estatic he’s staying in the Boot…
Former LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier said he had to wait what seemed like forever as his name was not called until the seventh round. But he’s going to a championship organization as the Chiefs selected the Lake Charles native. Nussmeier is fired up to learn from head coach Andy Reid and superstar quarterback Patrick Mahomes…