Early voting in the New Orleans mayoral election begins Saturday. Andrew Greenstein reports it could be a runaway.
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A Tangipahoa Parish man has been sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for killing a Loranger mother and her daughter in June of 2024. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Early voting starts Saturday in the New Orleans mayoral election. UNO Political Science Professor Ed Chervenak says Helena Moreno has such a big lead in the polls that the other two major candidates in the race, Royce Duplessis and Oliver Thomas, are just hoping to get the race to a runoff.
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Chervenak says while Moreno, who’s currently the president of the New Orleans City Council, is resonating with voters, Duplessis and Thomas are having a much more difficult time doing so.
Chervenak says with Duplessis and Thomas trailing in the polls by a wide margin, they’re pulling out all the stops in portraying Moreno in a negative light.
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Early voting ends October 4th, and the election is October 11th. If no one reaches the 50-percent-plus-one threshold, a runoff between the top two votegetters will be held November 15th.
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An Amite man pleaded guilty to first-degree murder charges in the death of a 35-year-old woman and her four-year-old daughter. Prosecutors say Daniel Callihan stabbed to death Callie Brunett 50-times in Loranger in June of 2024 and took her girls to Hinds County, Mississippi. That’s where four-year-old Erin Brunett was found dead. District Attorney Scott Perrilloux says Callihan will serve two life sentences with no possibility of parole…
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By pleading guilty, Callihan avoids the possibility of a death sentence. Perrilloux says capital punishment cases are difficult to prosecute, so avoiding a trial and getting a guilty plea is a positive result.
Callihan also kidnapped Brunett’s six-year-old daughter and he intended to keep her as a sex slave. After he was apprehended in Mississippi, Callihan told reporters as he was being walked by Jackson, Mississippi police that he killed Brunett and her daughter and blamed it on being on Lexapro.
Callihan’s attorney, Kerry Cuccia, says his client is a different person than he was 15 months ago…
Callihan is also expected to plead guilty on Monday to state charges in Mississippi. He will also be sentenced in November to federal crimes he pleaded guilty to last month.
The Brunett family issued a statement, wishing him “nightmares every night for the rest of his life.”
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If you have a “baby on board,” take a few minutes to check on the installation of your child safety seat. Saturday is National Seat Check Saturday, and the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission is setting up nine free safety seat inspection stations around the state from nine to noon. Bridget Gardner, the state director for the Louisiana Passenger Safety Task Force, says the vast majority of parents fail to properly install child safety seats.
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Gardner says an improperly installed seat or an improperly buckled child is as dangerous as a lack of a child safety seat altogether.
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There are many different types of child safety seats based on the child’s height and weight; and Gardner says if you show up to one of these stations and you’re found to have an improper seat, you might be able to obtain a proper one right then and there.
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If they don’t have any extras, they can point you in the right direction on what specifically to buy.
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In tomorrow’s SEC showdown between 4th ranked LSU and 13th ranked Ole Miss, the Tigers could have success running the football. The Rebels have the 120th rush defense in the nation, allowing 190 yards on the ground a game. ESPN analyst and former LSU defensive tackle Booger McFarland says the Tigers must be able to run the ball efficiently in order to open up other parts of the offense.
LSU’s defense will be tested against Ole Miss on Saturday. Last time the Tigers played Ole Miss in Oxford, LSU’s defense surrendered a program worst 707 yards of offense. McFarland says he has a lot more confidence in this 2025 squad.
LSU’s offense looked much more comfortable last week against Southeastern Louisiana, scoring eight total touchdowns. Tigers head coach Brian Kelly says look for the Tigers to play with some tempo.