BAKER, LA (WAFB)- A report released Monday evening by the National Transportation
Safety Board says that a flight plan had not been filed before an airplane
crashed into a Baker neighborhood.

The report says the BeechCraft KingAir reached an altitude of 1,200
feet and began a slow descent, disappeared from radar and hit the roof of a
home and a tree before hitting two more houses and bursting into flames.

The pilot of the plane, John Fowler of Brookhaven MS, died in the
crash.

The last radio transmission from Fowler was that he was going to
crash.

The craft's cockpit voice recorder was recovered and shipped to
Washington, DC for examination.

The crash happened about three miles northeast of the Baton Rouge
Metro Airport.  Fowler, 71, was flying to
McComb, Mississippi.

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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB)- Investigators
said a fire that started because a pot was left unattended damaged seven units
of an apartment complex Sunday evening.

It happened
at the Evangeline Place apartments in the 4700 block Annette Street in Baton
Rouge just before 7 p.m.

The Baton
Rouge Fire Department reported the fire began in apartment No. 6, with the
flames basically gutting the kitchen and living room. The blaze also caused
heavy smoke and heat damage throughout the rest of the unit.

The kitchen
wall in apartment No. 7 was damaged by the fire and other units had mild to
moderate smoke damage.

American
Red Cross volunteers said they are helping 14 people, including two children.
They are providing temporary housing, food, clothing and other needs.

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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB)- Governor Bobby Jindal has signed the following bills from the House of Representatives into law:

HB 9 by Rep. P. Williams: Increases the jurisdictional amount in dispute in the City Court of Shreveport.

HB 10 by Rep. Pearson: Adds certain hallucinogenic substances to the list of Schedule I controlled dangerous substances.

HB 15 by Rep. Mack: Adds certain compounds to the Schedule I classification of controlled dangerous substances.

HB 16 by Rep. Dixon: Provides transfer of certain state property in Rapides Parish to the city of Pineville.

HB 18 by Rep. Danahay: Relates to meetings of the Sulphur Industrial Development District.

HB 36 by Rep. Danahay: Relates to the Sheriffs' Pension and Relief Fund.

HB 37 by Rep. N. Landry: Requires promulgation of actuarial assumptions by the board of trustees for the Registrars of Voters Employees' Retirement System

HB 38 by Rep. Greene: Relates to employee contributions in the Registrars of Voters Employees' Retirement System.

HB 44 by Rep. Hazel: Relates to the Firefighters' Retirement System.