PORT ALLEN - Attorneys for the Port Allen chief financial officer reinstated by a Judge two months ago want Mayor Deedy Slaughter held in contempt of court.
In February Judge Alvin Batiste ruled that McCain was to be reinstated, and prohibited the Mayor from interfering with or affecting the... more »
PORT ALLEN - Audrey McCain has her keys, her office, and her computer back a week after Port Allen Mayor "Deedy" Slaughter tried to fire the city's chief financial officer.
McCain told News 2 she was focused today on paying the city's bills. She pays city vendors every Thursday.... more »
PORT ALLEN - A judge ruled today that Port Allen's mayor had no authority to fire the city's chief financial officer, and ordered she give her job back.
Judge Alvin Batiste said Audrey McCain was a department head, so Mayor "Deedy" Slaughter could not have fired her.
Slaughter... more »
PORT ALLEN - Officials in Port Allen scheduled this morning to discuss the job status of the city's chief financial officer, whom the new mayor fired last week.
Mayor "Deedy" Slaughter fired Audrey McCain a week after News 2 received financial documents requested about the mayor's travel to Washington,... more »
PORT ALLEN - One week after News 2 turned in public records requests asking for financial information surrounding Port Allen's new mayor, Dee Dee Slaughter, she fired her Chief Financial Officer.
Those documents News 2 obtained show Slaughter traveled to Washington D.C. for President Obama's inauguration last month, and... more »
GRAPEVINE, Texas - The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership votes today on whether to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks. The roughly 1,400... more »
OKLAHOMA CITY - A band of thunderstorms is battering the Oklahoma City area and slowing cleanup operations in the southern suburb where a tornado killed... more »
NEW ORLEANS - Homicide detectives in New Orleans are investigating a fatal shooting this morning on Interstate 10.
Officers responded around 4:45 a.m.... more »
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is likely to talk about the need for greater transparency in U.S. drone strikes when he delivers a speech this... more »