The countdown to finding a missing person begins the moment someone concerned for his or her well-being alerts law enforcement. Investigators are essentially working against the clock, as with each passing hour decreases the likelihood that the subject will be found, according to criminology experts interviewed by ABC News.
The Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Public Policy Center today examined issues central to the former Louisiana governor's tenure during its inaugural colloquium. Former U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu moderated the program.
Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, left, welcomes Gov. John Bel Edwards to the stage Tuesday, May 22, 2018, at Earl K. Long Gym on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, La. Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, left, welcomes Gov. John Bel Edwards to the stage Tuesday, May 22, 2018, at Earl K. Long Gym on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, La.
Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks Tuesday, May 22, 2018, at Earl K. Long Gym on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, La. Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks Tuesday, May 22, 2018, at Earl K. Long Gym on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, La.
Gov. John Bel Edwards bypassed speaking to state lawmakers about the state's budget crisis and instead tried to address the public directly in a speech Tuesday , given a couple of hours before the opening of the Louisiana Legislature's second special session on fiscal issues this year. Appearing at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Edwards urged citizens to get behind a tax plan he is pushing and to reach out to their own lawmakers to support it.
As a pugnacious sheriff's deputy, Clay Higgins developed a loyal social media following with thumbs-hooked-in-gun-belt anti-crime videos in which he leaned menacingly toward the camera in his Mountie-style hat and warned the criminals of Louisiana's Acadiana region that they'd best just turn themselves in. His trash-talking style - in one video he donned body armour and wielded a long gun while calling suspects "thugs" and "animals" - wasn't appreciated by all and it led to his resignation by the time he had risen to the rank of captain in the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office.
Here is something you don't see every day; the truth about the horrors of communism and the evil Cuban dictatorship being told on an American college campus. Though most consider communism to be a thing of the past, speakers from "Castro's Legacy and the Future of Cuba," a luncheon panel that was open to all University students on Wednesday in the LSU Student Union, pushed this idea aside.
The Bureau has an office in Lafayette which is made up of agents, analysts, support staff, and local law enforcement officers who were assigned to the office. The agents also provide support and expertise in times of crises, such as the 2015 Grand Theatre shooting, the 2014 bomb threat in Girard Park and at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and the 2012 disappearance and murder of Mickey Shunick.