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Barber Brothers Contracting Co. is the apparent low bidder for widening nearly four miles of La. 42 in Ascension Parish, new bid results show.

The long-awaited $27.5 million road project through Prairieville is expected to take two-and-a-half years to complete.

The project will widen two-lane La. 42 to a four- and five-lane highway between Airline Highway and Woodhaven Drive, just east of La. 44.

The area along the stretch of highway is a growing suburb, and La. 42 is the major route through it. Sidewalks and bike lanes will also be built along the expanded highway.

The bid opening for the La. 42 project at the state Department of of Transportation and Development on Wednesday came just one day after the state announced James Construction Group won a $72 million design-build contract to widen I-10 from four to six lanes between Highland Road in Baton Rouge and La. 73 in Prairieville.

Brendan Rush, DOTD spokesman, said funding for the La. 42 project has been in line for several years and was not related to a gas tax increase that failed in the state Legislature this year.

He noted that the stretch of La. 42 slated for widening has already been cleared for sewer and utility improvement. The sewer work was required required under state health and environmental rules and led to delays in the road widening project.

Ascension Parish lacks a regional municipal sewer system, despite years of effort to create one. Open ditches often receive partially treated sewer effluent from homes and businesses along major roads in Ascension. The La. 42 widening will remove existing drainage ditches in favor of new underground pipelines, which, under health rules, can't accept the effluent that had gone into the open ditches.

Barber Brothers led four other companies for the La. 42 expansion with a total construction bid of nearly $27.5 million. Other bids ranged from nearly $30.6 million to $39 million, according to apparent bid results on DOTD's website. The state had estimated the cost at nearly $25.7 million.

As part of the bids, contractors had to give a time estimate for the length of the project. Barber Brothers says it expects the construction job to take 850 days, or about 2.3 years.

Barber Brothers was the firm that widened La. 73 in Ascension Parish a few years ago from two to three lanes, another project that ran into delays over similarly required sewer installations.

In response to those delays, DOTD broke up the La. 42 project, putting the sewer and other utility work first in one phase before the construction phase went to bid. Ascension Parish officials announced last month that the last parts of the sewer improvements along La. 42 had been finished.

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A genealogy gathering from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 24 aims to bring together Ascension Parish descendants of Georgetowns 272 people sold to Louisiana. The gathering, sponsored by the GU272 Descendants Association and the River Road African American Museum, will be held at the Ascension Parish Courthouse, 300 Houmas St., Donaldsonville.

Lunch will be provided. Admission is free, but registration is required; visit http://bit.ly/APGathering.

Surnames associated with the 1838 sale in Ascension Parish include Adams, Armant, Baptiste, Brown, Campbell, Cremble, Cuckumber, Cutchmore, Dorsey, Fields, Ford, Green, Greenleaf, Harrison, Hawkins, Hill, Hubbard, Hudson, Johnson, Jones, Lee, McCall, Nolan, Pinkett, Plowden, Randolph, Ware, West and William.

The courthouse will be open June 23 for interested people to search marriage, property, mortgage and conveyances records related to genealogy research. The museum will be open to visitors all weekend; admission is $10.

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A $72 million project to widen Interstate 10 from Highland Road in Baton Rouge to La. Hwy. 73 in suburban Ascension Parish will start early next year and take up to 2 1/2 years to finish, state officials announced Tuesday.

The widening, which will expand the corridor from four lanes to six lanes, was not linked to the failed drive to increase Louisiana's gasoline tax.

The plan was announced in September. The money already was allotted and not dependent on additional state monies.

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A key legislative panel Monday approved the state's plan to widen Interstate 10 from Highlan

"The reality is that major enhancements like this I-10 project will be very limited moving forward due to the current revenues for transportation," Shawn Wilson, secretary for the state Department of Transportation and Development, said in a statement.

Wilson said the work will be done by James Construction Group LLC.

"Our financial means are very limited compared to our need, but we will continue to use every tool at our disposal to deliver what we can," Gov. John Bel Edwards said.

The roughly seven-mile stretch set for widening is used by about 80,000 motorists per day.

The governor has called it one of the most congested sections of highway in Louisiana.

Eastbound traffic on weekdays is regularly backed up, and travelers getting off at Highland Road are often stopped on the interstate two miles or more from the exit.

The work will be financed with a combination of state and federal dollars, including more than $40 million in federal earmarks originally intended for other projects in Louisiana. Those projects are supposed to be delayed, not scrapped.

The pricetag was originally $60 million but was raised to $72 million to make improvements at Highland Road. However, utilities and work on Highland Road will be completed in the future.

Plans to widen I-10 have won praise from lawmakers in the Baton Rouge area, which is considered the most congested city in a state and is plagued by transportation problems.

The undertaking is called design-build, which allows the designer and contractor to collaborate so that the work can be done three or four months faster.

The work will extend from west of Highland Road to the La. 73 interchange, which is the Prairieville/Geismar exit.

The La. 42 overpass structures will also be replaced.

The high-profile expansion is something of an outlier amid the state's $13.1 billion backlog of road and bridge projects.

"We are moving the boundaries of innovation to deliver important projects for Louisiana, but this project is only one of many that are desperately needed to enhance the I-10 freight corridor," Edwards said.

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BATON ROUGE An Ascension Parish man is accused of failing to timely file income tax returns.

United States of America filed a complaint on May 31 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana against Michael Tyler alleging that the taxpayer violated the Internal Revenue Code.

According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges that as of April 30, 2017, federal income taxes, penalties, and interest in total amount of $2,903,093.21 remains uncollected from the defendant. The plaintiff holds Tyler responsible because the defendant allegedly failed to timely file income tax returns and neglected or refused to make full payment of the assessed amounts.

The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks judgment against defendant in the amount of $2,903,093.21 with statutory interest, costs incurred in bringing the action. It is represented by John M. Bilheimer of Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.; and John J. Gaupp of United States Attorney Office in Baton Rouge; ad Corey R. Amundson, action U.S. attorney.

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GONZALESDefense attorneys for Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa and a local businessman have long claimed the stink of politics hangs over the secret recordings that led to charges accusing the two of trying to bribe a candidate to quit a race last year.

In routine pre-trial disclosures last week, prosecutors revealed that the man who directed the recordings loaned money to the candidate who claims Matassa and Olin Berthelot tried to pay him off a revelation that ramped up defense claims that the case was in essence a setup manufactured for political reasons.

But several legal experts say that while the loans made by Wade Petite, publisher of the Pelican Post news website and a past candidate for local office himself might be unseemly, they're not enough to legally torpedo the case against Matassa and Berthelot, who are longtime friends.

Still, the attorneys all agreed the fact that Petite loaned Gonzales City Council candidate A. Wayne Lawson $1,200 the exact amount Matassa and Berthelot are accused of offering as a bribe could become fertile material in a trial and the court of public opinion.

Jarrett Ambeau, a public defender in Ascension Parish, said the loans are "mud to throw at the wall" so attorneys can raise questions in the media and in court to "bring an air of dishonesty to Mr. Lawson."

Ambeau, who is not involved in the case, said the argument could be that "he got a loan from the guy who recorded the conversation, a guy who had an ax to grind and would benefit from 'breaking' the news."

"I would use this as a bit of squid ink, try to muddy the water and attack the credibility of Mr. Lawson," Ambeau said. "I would suggest by inference that it was not a loan, but a payment for the tape."

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DONALDSONVILLEA Gonzales website publisher who helped coordinate the secret recordings of

Investigators with the Louisiana Attorney General's Office and Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office have known about Petite's loans to Lawson since early August, months before the March grand jury indictment of Matassa and Berthelot on counts of attempted election bribery. The existence of the loans became public knowledge earlier this month after investigative reports and transcripts were filed in court as prosecutors turned over materials to defense attorneys.

The case stems from an election last fall. Lawson, a part-time barber and perennial candidate in Ascension, qualified to run against Gonzales City Councilincumbent Neal Bourque. As the deadline for removing himself from the ballot approached, Lawson met with Matassa and Berthelot to discuss his possible exit from the election.

Lawson and Petite have alleged the recordings captured that meeting, subsequent phone calls Lawson had with Berthelot and Matassa, and the day when Lawson was supposed to withdraw from the race in exchange for a bribe.

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GONZALES Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa and Gonzales businessman Olin Berthelot

Harry Daniels III, a criminal defense attorney not involved in the case, said that in Louisiana, it is legal to record someone without his or her knowledge as long as at least one person who is a party to the conversation knows about the recording.

Daniels also said entrapment, a defense often raised against undercover stings, applies only to law enforcement or other "government actors" and only when they induce someone to commit a crime who was not already predisposed to do so.

Petite and Lawson aren't government officials. And Daniels noted Lawson told investigators that it was Berthelot who contacted him about meeting with Matassa, not the other way around.

"I dont think it would meet any of the elements of entrapment," Daniels said.

Lawson told investigators he became immediately suspicious about Berthelot's call, which came shortly after he signed up to run for office. Lawson said that's why he contacted Petite about trying to record the meeting, in case something untoward happened.

Lawson told investigators that he had not been getting many telephone calls returned during a lengthy search for a job, including government positions.

"But all of sudden now since I qualify for this particular City Council's race, individuals begin to call me," Lawson said, according to the investigative reports.

Even if the loans from Petite to Lawson were for the recordings, which the two men deny, legal experts didn't see that as posing any kind of criminal liability for them.

Ascension Parish public defender Jeff Heggelund, who previously worked as a sheriff's deputy in narcotics, said it is common for confidential informants to get cash as part of their work with law enforcement. This wouldn't be much different than that, he said.

"It's just part and parcel to the process, really," said Heggelund, who has done some civil legal work for Berthelot's companies in the past.

In the recordings, Matassa and Berthelot tell Lawson they think he should drop out of the Division E council race against Bourque. They also promise Lawson a parish job and $1,200 so he can turn a trailer into a food truck. The last recording captures the final transaction at Berthelot's Gonzales office, where Lawson was to fill out a job application and candidate withdrawal form and receive the $1,200 in cash, hours before a state deadline for him to drop out of the race. Lawson, however, didn't fill out the forms or take the cash.

Steven Moore, an attorney for Berthelot, hasclaimed the loans from Petite were a payoff to Lawson to help arrange a setup. Moore and Lewis Ungelsby, the attorney representing Matassa, have said Lawson was a friend of the two men, and the cash offer was a loan to help him out, as was the job promise.The talk about dropping out was unrelated political advice, they've argued.

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GONZALES Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa and a Gonzales businessman accused in an

Petite, part journalist and part political provocateur, and whose website is harshly critical of Matassa, was himself a City Council candidate last year at the same time as Lawson. In that separate race, Petite said he ran not to win the position but to call into question the city's designation of the particular seat as set aside for minority candidates. Petite is white.

Lawson has a long history in Ascension politics, and at times was allied with Bourque, Matassa and Berthelot. But last year, Lawson entered the race to unseat Bourque.

Mike Magner, a former federal prosecutor who now does white-collar criminal defense in New Orleans, said that through their public comments, the defense attorneys are trying to taint Lawson in future jurors' minds so they won't see Matassa and Berthelot's actions as anything other than local politics.

"And have the jury conclude these people are all just low-level political operatives and this is just sort of bare-knuckle political drama rather than any kind of illegal activity," Magner said. "And horse trading is part of the political process and, you know, getting allies to support your political campaign and your agenda is all part of the normal political process, and that can seem unseemly, but isnt necessarily illegal."

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GONZALESSince the attempted bribery scandal aimed at removing his fall election opponent

Investigators said in their reports that Petite, Lawson and Dustin Clouatre, who also helped with the recording effort and provided $1,000 to Petite to loan to Lawson, largely corroborated one another's story.

But one of the legal experts, Daniels, noted that Lawson initially wasn't completely forthcoming with investigators about the loans from Petite. After some prompting by investigators, Lawson admitted to a $200 loan from Petite but said he could not recall any others.

Lawson also seemed evasive and unclear in some of his responses to investigators, who eventually asked him if he was taking medication. Lawson told them he had taken Xanax and hydrocodone.

Shortly after that interview, Lawson returned to the Sheriff's Office and encountered some of the investigators in the parking lot, according to one of the reports. He told them that in addition to the $200, he had received a $1,000 loan from Petite, who had told investigators about both loans a week earlier.

Moments after Lawson spoke the second time to investigators, Petite texted one of them to say he had just told Lawson to tell them about the second loan, the report says.

"I think Lawson's credibility may be affected," Daniels said. "They mayattack his credibility. He lied about the loan."

Attempts to reach Lawson for comment Monday were unsuccessful.

Heggelund said such credibility questions wouldn't necessarily be fatal to the state's case. Heggelund suggested the state would have many questions to raise about Berthelot's actions, such as why cash, if it was a loan, wasn't handled through a normal promissory note. Berthelot runs financial services companies that routinely make personal loans.

And Ambeau said any financial transaction between Lawson and Petite would have nothing to do with whatever Matassa and Berthelot might have done to influence the election. He said prosecutors should ask a judge to keep jurors from hearing about the loans from Petite.

"In the end the financial transaction between Petite and Lawson, no matter its nature, is not relevant to the question of whether someone bribed Lawson with unrelated funds," Ambeau said.

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In the main event of the night, the always solid veteran Cortez, takes on Prez Mafia. For Cortez, this is really another day at the office. He's battled a virtual who's who in battle rap, and has generally acquitted himself quite well. Unlike many of the battlers on this card, this really isn't a make or break battle for Tez', as not only does he have a long battle history to fall back on, he's booked for URL's Double Impact 2, just a few weeks later.

For Prez though, this really is a huge opportunity. Near the start of Prez's battle career in late 2013-early 2014, he had picked up a good deal of hype, with fans being very excited about the potential that he was showing. By the end of the year though, he had parted ways with URL and became a free agent. After taking a few battles on smaller platforms, Prez was exposed for lifting an entire verse from a 2007 song and using it in a battle. Obviously, this did significant harm to his standing in battle rap, and at that time it seemed as though a return to the top platform in battle rap was unlikely. Now, 3 battles into said return, Prez seeks to take his biggest step towards fully re-establishing himself in this battle. A convincing win against a respected vet like Cortez could do just that, so look for Prez to come out with something to prove.

In a matchup of two Pennslyvania emcees, Bill Collector takes on Uno Lavoz. Though many were skeptical of Lavoz when he came over to URL initially, his first two battles, against Jae Laww and Young X were actually quite well received, and it had looked like he may have found a home on that platform. This came to an abrupt halt however after a poor performance against Cortez in a battle that URL to date have not chosen to release (it happened in 2015). Since this point Lavoz has been absent from the URL stage, and is looking for a strong performance to bring him back into the fold.

So while Lavoz never quite got his footing on the URL stage, Bill Collector was at one time one of the most promising faces in the league. Part of the original (and in many eyes the best) PG class, Bill came on platform with much hype and fanfare. Despite his undeniable talent, his career on URL hit several speed bumps. From legal issues to public spats with URL management, the last few years have been a tumultous time for the Norristown emcee. With this being the second URL battle of the year for Bill, a good showing could help cement his return and lead to some bigger names in his future.

In the trailer voiceover, Beasley referred to Young Kannon and Money Bagz as being a battle of two of the most underrated emcees in the culture. Underrated has to be a difficult label for a battle rapper, it's undeniably a compliment, the statement that they are more talented than their buzz would suggest, but at the same time, it begs the question, "if they are so talented, why are they so slept on?" Ascension is a name which will perfectly fit this battle, as both guys will be seeking to shed the label "underrated" with a dominating performance that forces fans to take note of them, and the next time they're booked for a battle, we're not calling them underrated, we're calling them top tier.

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Author and activist Naomi Klein was on a visit to Sydney last November when Donald Trump shocked the US and Western political establishment by taking the White House.

"I think a great many of us felt that the world had just turned upside down, but [in Australia]I literally felt the world had turned upside down," she says, recalling that moment of supreme disorientation.

Since then, unlike many American liberals, Klein has been fixated less by the drip-drip of revelations about the Trump campaign's murky links to the Kremlin, and more with what she calls the "corporate coup" taking place under cover of the President's antics.

"I'm not saying don't look into Russia, of course that should be investigated," she told Fairfax Media.

"But to say to US voters, 'I am going to protect your jobs, I'm going to protect social security, I'm going to protect your healthcare, I'm going to stand up for the little guy, I'm going to drain the swamp - and then bring in half your cabinet from Goldman Sachs? And pass or try to pass the most aggressive pro-corporate legislation that the US has ever seen? I'm comfortable calling that a corporate coup."

Klein is speaking by phone from her native Toronto, a few days in advance of the global release of her latest book No Is Not Enough, a scathing polemic on the Trump phenomenon.

In many ways the book picks up and continues passionate campaigns she waged in previous volumesNo LogoandThe Shock Doctrine on the failings, as she sees it, of modern capitalism, andThis Changes Everything, her call to arms for urgent action on climate change.

No Is Not Enoughlooks at how the election of Trump has turbocharged those issues for the progressive movement in the US and elsewhere.

Klein's core thesis is that Trump's elevation to the apex of political power in the West is not an aberration but"the logical conclusion of the worst trends of the past half century", including rising inequality.

As a branding exercise, she writes, it's a triumph: the presidency is the "crowning extension of the Trump brand". Trump's wife Melaniaand children are "spin-off brands".

"After decades of seeing the public sphere privatised in bits and pieces, Trump and his appointees have now seized control of the government itself. The takeover is complete,"she argues.

Klein, who backed Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential nomination contest, takes plenty of swipes against Clinton in her new volume.

The presidency is the crowning extension of the Trump brand.

Controversially, she argues the Clintons helped pave the way for Trump by "blurring ethical lines" when they allowed the Clinton Foundation to accept massive donations from private and foreign government sources while Hillary was secretary of state under Barack Obama.

Challenged on this harsh judgment Klein pushes back.

"The Clintons blurred the lines, there is no doubt. But what really paved the way for Trump was the narrative of the CEO saviour," she claims.

"The idea that our problems are going to be fixed by a Richard Branson or a Bill Gates out of the goodness of their hearts, with their massive profits that they earned in very large part because of the frenzy of deregulation that took place in the 90s ... when we seriously behave as if a multimillionaire like Gates is going to fix malaria and AIDS and climate change for us, that prepares our brains for Trump's message which is, 'Sure I don't have any experience, but I'm rich so I can fix this'."

Klein is appalled by Trump's announcement the US will pull out of the Paris climate accord, but says this is largely "optics", and that the real damage is being done with dismantling of the Clean Power Plan, the centrepiece of what the US brought to Paris under Obama.

Having seen for herself the impact of coral bleaching when she visited the Great Barrier Reef during her Australian visit, she says climate change remains an "existential crisis".

"You don't get a do-over on a drowned country," is how she puts it in the book.

"In the real world, what matters more than the Trump show is how much carbon is being emitted, and the way countries which are not the US respond to this," she tells Fairfax Media.

"And I think Australia is particularly vulnerable, because you have a government that I think would be quite happy to seize on any excuse to go, 'Well, see we can't be uncompetitive.' "

If there's a silver lining for Klein in the advent of Trump, it's that he seems to be turning voters off those of his ilk elsewhere.

"It seems to be serving as a kind of warning in many places,"she says, "people going, whoa, we don't want to go down that road."

"We have seen this with the European elections, and we may well see it with climate ...it's really about how the rest of us respond."

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SORRENTO - A total closure of I-10 eastbound ended earlier than expected - around 7 o'clock Sunday morning.

A stretch of I-10 going toward New Orleans had been closed since Friday night, the second time this year, so crews could replace an overpass that's been out of use since 2015.

The ramp being repaired is Airline Highway to I-10 westbound. It was damaged back in 2015 when a contractor that was moving large machinery, hit the ramp.

Dr. Shawn Wilson, DOTD secretary, says the same company that broke the ramp, is fixing it, and paying for it.

"It does happen where contractors are involved in accidents just like regular travelers are, in this case they did the right thing, and said look... we want to fix it for you, and we'll absorb the cost like were gonna have to pay for anyway," he said.

This same detour happened back in March, so crews could remove the ramp, and fix it, just to the side of the interstate.

"Putting it back is probably a little more complex than taking it out, because you have to make things work and you have to put it back together again to ensure its safe for users to travel under it," said Wilson.

The ramp was not in place when the interstate reopened Sunday. It's not immediately clear if crews had trouble replacing it or why it's not finished. The ramp appeared to be wedged into place Saturday, though.

I-10 will reopen Monday morning, but the ramp won't be ready just yet, it will take another month for finishing touches on the ramp.

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Bram has been in the wrestling industry for years. He has been all over the place. He has competed with WWE, Impact Wrestling and promotions like NOAH in Japan. While it seems not everything has always gone his way, he has still made a name for himself.

Bram recently appeared on the Art of Wrestling Podcast where he spoke about being in The Ascension, being suspended from Japanese promotion NOAH due to an image posted on social media, working for Dixie Carter and the success of his ex-wife Charlotte.

Bram first spoke about working for Dixie Carter, Billy Corgan and Jeff Jarrett while being in Impact Wrestling. Bram explains that Corgan is a close friend of his and is very talented. He explains he never had a problem with Dixie Carter. Finally, he respects Jarrett and is glad to have him back with Impact.

I love Billy Corgan! Hes a close friend of mine and someone I hold in high regard. His mind for the business, and business in general, is impeccable. Having him on board for the time he was with us, for me, was fantastic. Im pretty sure all the boys would agree with that too. I always liked Dixie a lot and she was good to me. I had no issues with her whatsoever. What goes on in the office or behind closed doors is not my business, nor do I put much thought into it, my job is to entertain. Anthem seem keen to get stuck into Impact and turn it around for the better, so Im all for it. Having Jeff Jarrett back is great, its his baby at the end of the day and he gets and understands the business from every angle.

Recently, Bram was suspended from a NOAH show he and Robbie E were to compete at due to a photo posted on social media of him laying on an ice-cream fridge. He spoke about this with Colt Cobana, the host of the podcast.

Robbie E and I were asked to come over to Japan to take part in the Global Tag League. Robbie and I were killing it as a team over there and had great matches. I love Japan and their style and I was excited to have the opportunity to go over there and wrestle for NOAH. Their office is great and the boys were great to us. I loved it! However, one evening, as a joke, I laid on an ice cream fridge and took a picture, which I put on my Instagram account. I was trying to be funny and meant no harm, I had no idea it would upset people, no idea! I publicly apologized for the incident to the media, but it was too late, NOAH suspended me due to the picture. I hope one day I can return to NOAH and finish what I started. I like it there. The relationship between NOAH and Impact is completely fine and theres no hard feelings. I just had no idea it would be such a bad thing and honestly meant it only to be funny. Im hoping once the dust settles I can go back, because I know they liked me.

Back in FCW and the early days of NXT, Bram was signed with WWE and was part of The Ascension, which also included Ricardo Rodriguez, who many may remember as Alberto Del Rios (now Alberto El Patron in Impact Wrestling) exclusive ring announcer. He speaks on his time as part of what was once a stable.

The Ascension was cool and I am glad I was a part of the early stages. I am still close with both guys, Konnor and Viktor. I wish them nothing but the best and success. What we did and what is on TV now is a completely different product to what we were doing when I was part of it, so I cant really comment. However, they are on TV and making money so to me that is still a successful endeavor.

Finally, he spoke on his ex-wife Charlottes progress in wrestling. He had nothing but nice things to say about her, explaining that she is the best womens wrestler in the world, even better than many of the men.

I cant say I watch a lot of womens wrestling, but I will watch if Ashley [Charlotte Flair] is on. Without sounding bias, Charlotte Flair, is my ultimate favorite. Shes the best in the world when it comes to womens wrestling. Hell, shes stepping on the dudes toes too! She has so much natural charisma, its effortless to her. Its like shes been doing it forever and shes only been doing it for a handful of years. I love watching her work.

Charlotte is scheduled to enter the first ever Womens Money In The Bank match alongside Natalya, Becky Lynch, Carmella and Tamina at Money In The Bank.

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Bram is a veteran in my eyes. I love what he had to say about Charlotte, despite their past. I would love to see him come back to WWE, as it has been reported in the past. Though he seems happy with Impact Wrestling.

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SORRENTO A Zachary man was killed Friday in an early morning crash in Ascension Parish when his car crossed the centerline of La. 22 and struck a tree, State Police said.

Dustin Good, 34, of Zachary, was traveling west on La. 22, just east of La. 936 near Sorrento, in a 2011 Chevrolet Silverado, shortly after 3 a.m. when his vehicle crossed the centerline into the eastbound lane and ran off the road, striking a tree, State Trooper Bryan Lee said.

Good was not wearing a seat belt, Lee said. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Ascension Parish Coroner's Office.

Lee said it is unknown if impairment was a factor in the crash but a toxicology sample was taken from Good and will be sent to the State Police Crime Lab.

The reasons for the crash are still under investigation, Lee said.

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