The Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office rolls out new technology to warn drivers of oncoming pursuits. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Starting next year LSU will wear jersey patches sponsored by an Australian Company that’s building an L-N-G production and export terminal in southwest Louisiana. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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The Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office rolls out new technology aimed at notifying drivers of nearby pursuits. Vehicles in the department are being equipped with the Pursuit Alert Digital Siren. Sheriff Brett Stassi says it allows deputies to press a single button to notify drivers of pursuits.
The app “Digital Siren,” is available for free on Apple and Android devices. It was on LA 1 on New Year’s Eve 2022 where 17-year-old Maggie Dunn and 16-year-old Caroline Gill were killed by Addis Police Officer David Cauthron, who was driving 86 miles an hour while pursuing the driver of a stolen vehicle. Gill’s father, Jason, is thankful that the sheriff’s office is rolling out this technology.
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The system was developed by Tim Morgan, the CEO of Pursuit Alert and Digital Siren. He says he hopes his technology will be so widespread that it will eventually no longer be necessary to download an app to receive the alerts.
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The system can also notify drivers of missing people, especially children, in a manner faster than an AMBER Alert.
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Funeral services for Legendary football coach Pat Collins is tomorrow in Monroe. Collins led Northeast Louisiana University, now known as ULM, to the Division One-Double-A Championship in 1987. Former N-L-U receiver Tag Rome was an assistant coach on that national championship team and says Coach Collins was a father figure and you knew where you stood with him…
Rome says Coach Collins is one of the most important people in his life. He says Coach Collins was tough on his players, but he was a strong leader…
Collins also coaches at local high schools, West Ouachita and Ouachita. Rome expects a large number of people will be at the Kilpatrick Funeral Home to pay their last respects…
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Collins record at NLU was 57-35. He won two Southland Conference Championships. The Shreveport native was also a defensive coordinator at Louisiana Tech in the 1970s. Those years were known as the “Glory Years.” In 2015, Collins was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. He was 84.
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A 12-foot, one-thousand-pound, great white shark was recently tracked off of Louisiana’s coast, near the Chandeleur Islands east of New Orleans. Doctor Sean Powers, director of the Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences at University of South Alabama, says it’s rare to see a great white shark near the Northern Gulf coast, but not unprecedented
An organization known as OCEARCH tracks sharks and they say this shark, named Ernst, traveled south along the East Coast and entered the Gulf around Mid-November. Powers says based on the tracking information, Ernst traveled 32-hundred miles before making it into the northern Gulf coast.
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Powers says Ernst was tagged off the coast of Nova Scotia last October and got within four miles of Gulf Shores. He says great white sharks will not get that much closer to the coast, because they like cooler waters
Powers says great white sharks travel alone, because as he says they are not very social until it’s time to mate. He says you can keep up with Ernst’s travels along with other sharks that have been tagged by going to ocearch.com. Ernest is now near the bend of the Florida coastline in the Gulf.