State News

St. Martinville – A police clerk who looted the evidence room for items to pawn when she was short of cash pleaded guilty to felony theft and malfeasance in office.

GRAY -- Services will be Saturday for former LSU running back Jesse Myles. He died March 7 at age 49.

NEW ORLEANS—Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals’ Secretary Alan Levine on Thursday celebrated the opening of two new community-based outpatient mental health care clinics for children, adolescents and their families in the Greater New Orleans area. Levine joined local and state officials in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at one of the new clinics, the Midtown Clinic in New Orleans, to mark another milestone in the state’s creation of a robust, community-based mental health system statewide.

(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Sen. David Vitter today introduced an amendment to expedite funding under the Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP), which was established under the 2005 Energy Policy Act to help energy-producing states and their coastal communities mitigate impacts from Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas production.

LIVINGSTON – An allegedly drunk driver's passenger was killed when their vehicle left the road, struck a culvert and rolled over shortly after 12 a.m. Thursday.

A Baton Rouge man and woman pleaded guilty for violations stemming from the illegal sale of recreationally caught fish and were sentenced recently by Judge Marilyn Lambert from the 23rd Judicial District Court.