A Lafayette Police officer was shot Thursday night when attempting to locate a suspect. Corporal Paul Mouton says says finding the suspect was a priority as he was on the run from and alleged shooting the night before…
cut 8 (08) Q: “appear warrants”
The officer and the suspect -23 year old Chase Chaisson-exchanged gunfire, and both men were hit. Chaisson faces numerous charges, including attempted first-degree murder of a police officer. Both men are in stable condition.

Monroe police say a man has been arrested after allegedly shooting his ex-wife’s boyfriend. Assistant police chief Don Bartley says 32-year-old Marlando Honeycutt had just dropped off his girlfriend’s kids at daycare center, when Lemerick Christopher walked up and confronted Honeycutt in the parking lot…
CUT 15 (07) “once in the chest”
Amazingly Honeycutt is in stable condition.

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LSU Athletic Director Joe Alleva has received a three-year contract extension from the LSU Board of Supervisors, keeping his current annual salary of $725 thousand dollars through 2019. One of Alleva’s crowning touches was the expansion of Tiger Stadium, and he says they’re not done yet….
cut 11 (09) Q: “those old dorms”
Alleva came to LSU ni 2008.

An Ascension Parish jury has found a Gonzales man guilty of molesting a young girl. 40 year-old Joseph Scott Mckinney molested the young girl numerous times when she was between the ages of 6 to 13. McKinney faces up to 99 years in prison.