Senator Bill Cassidy appears to be downplaying the growing controversy over a group chat plotting military action against Yemen. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The Shreveport City Council approves a 30-year lease to media mogul Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, who will take over a vacant studio in downtown Shreveport. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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While some people are ramping up their outrage over the inadvertent inclusion of a reporter for The Atlantic in a group text in which top cabinet members were plotting military action against Yemen, Senator Bill Cassidy appears to be downplaying the controversy.
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Cassidy says no one involved should be fired because no Americans got killed.
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Cassidy says there was a reason that they were using Signal to conduct the group chat.
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The Atlantic published the texts that its reporter received after the White House said there was no classified information contained. However, some sources are now saying that some of the information in those texts were indeed classified.
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The Shreveport City Council has approved a 30-year lease of the Stageworks of Louisiana building to Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. The former expo hall will serve as a studio for film and television production G-Unite Films and Television. Council member Jim Talifaferro says the now vacant building will be a hub for entertainment and sports…
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The media mogul and rapper has said he also wants to bring basketball, boxing, MMA fights, car shows and concerts to the Stageworks building in downtown Shreveport. Following the vote, Jackson told the council he will not let them down….
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The lease proposal was before the council for nearly a year as a few council members had concerns. Mayor Tom Arceneaux said there were issues that needed to be addressed. The vote to approve the lease was 7 to nothing, and Taliaferro is excited to see what happens next…
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Rent will start at 200 dollars a month and Jackson’s company will assume all operational expenses, which will save the city about 50-thousand dollars a year.
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State officials were in Alexandria to announce a 39-million dollar investment for the Renaissance Juvenile Facility. The money will result in the construction of a modern, security facility on Renaissance’s campus, increasing the number of beds from 12 to more than 50. Governor Jeff Landry says these types of facilities give juveniles an opportunity to rehabilitate
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State Senator Heather Cloud says by expanding the number of beds, more juvenile offenders from central Louisiana can be rehabilitated in Alexandria…
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Cloud says the improvements at Renaissance have been two decades in the making.
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The Monroe Police Department has made significant arrests this week in two major cases. Chief Victor Zordan (rhymes with “Jordan”) says Delarrious Jones, a suspect in a double homicide from September of 2020, was arrested in Albuquerque, New Mexico, yesterday.
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Zordan says his capture, nearly five years after the crime and over 900 miles away, was the result of a multi-agency operation involving the U.S. Marshals Service and local authorities in New Mexico.
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Additionally, 23-year-old Christopher Winfield of Monroe was arrested in connection with a gang-related shooting at Hibbett Sports on February 8th. Zordan says Winfield was arrested Monday and charged with rioting, illegally carrying a weapon, and attempted second-degree murder.
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Zordan asks anyone with information to contact the Monroe Police Department or Crimestoppers.
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Winfield is the sixth person arrested as a result of the investigation into the shooting at Hibbett Sports that resulted in two people being shot, neither fatally.