Third-Grade Teacher Threatened to Shoot His Students in Louisiana
A third-grade teacher in Union Parish, Louisiana, was arrested Thursday after allegedly threatening to shoot his students. of New York Post Reported Robert Mitchum, 70, a teacher at Downsville Community Charter School (DCCS), was charged with uttering threats after he allegedly told students he had a loaded gun and was going to bring it to […]
Hurricane Francine Causes Flash Floods, Knocks Power Out in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi
Tropical Storm Francine has battered parts of Louisiana, southern Mississippi, Alabama and southern Florida, leaving more than 400,000 homes without power and about 14 million people under flood warnings, according to NBC News. Reported. According to the media, Francine was a Category 2 hurricane when it made landfall in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, at 5 p.m. […]
Louisiana Man Saves Driver from Submerged Truck During Hurricane
A good Samaritan risked his life to rescue a motorist during flash flooding caused by Hurricane Francine in New Orleans, Louisiana on Wednesday. The incident happened at the Canal Street underpass when a driver went around a barricade. Moved He slowly made his way through the water, which reached the windows of his truck, WDSU […]
Ferocious Francine slams Louisiana, ripping roofs from buildings, trapping residents amid rising floodwaters
Francine slammed into the Louisiana coast as a powerful Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday and was downgraded to a tropical storm on Thursday after 100 mph winds blew roofs off buildings and dozens of residents were trapped inside their homes by rising floodwaters from torrential rains. The eye of Hurricane Francine made landfall in Terrebonne […]
Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Louisiana as Category 2
Hurricane Francine Landed It strengthened rapidly throughout Wednesday, becoming a Category 2 storm in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, around 6:00 pm EDT. By 9:00 pm EDT, the storm had weakened to a Category 1 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds decreasing from 100 mph to 75 mph. However, the National Weather Service still described the storm as […]
Hurricane Francine takes aim at Louisiana coast as millions prepare for life-threatening impacts
Hurricane Francine has strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to make landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday. The storm is expected to bring extensive flooding, dangerous storm surge and destructive winds to the US Gulf Coast. Several Louisiana parishes issued mandatory evacuation orders, and state and local leaders […]
Louisiana Anonymous Tip App Allows Students to Report Safety Threats
Louisiana students and teachers can submit information about potential threats using a school safety app funded by the Governor's Office of Homeland Security in the wake of the Winder, Georgia, shooting. The Safe Schools LA app, created by CrimeStoppers Inc. Greater New Orleans (GNO), provides 650 schools with the ability to anonymously report information about […]
Louisiana mother involved in fight with students after being let in school
Witnesses said the mother of a student at a Louisiana school got into a fight with another student after being forced to enter the school through a side entrance. The fight reportedly happened around 7 a.m. on August 22nd on the IDEA Bridge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as students were waiting for class to start. […]
Jaw-dropping footage shows moment hurricane-damaged Hertz Tower skyscraper implodes in Louisiana
The abandoned Harts Tower, which had become a symbol of the destruction wrought by the successive hurricanes that hit Louisiana in 2020, was finally demolished on Saturday. Footage from a demolition site in Lake Charles shows the moment workers set off a series of explosions inside, causing the aging 22-story skyscraper formerly known as Capital […]
‘Ghost’ migrant admits to knifepoint rape and kidnapping of Louisiana girl, 13
An illegal immigrant police officer described as a “ghost” has admitted to kidnapping and raping a teenage girl at knifepoint near New Orleans. Diego Rodriguez Salvador, 23, was arrested on September 4 after he allegedly lured a 13-year-old girl into his car, took her to his home in Kenner, Louisiana, and raped her. Rodriguez-Salvador, an […]