This is the final week of winter, and Old Man Winter has one more thing up his sleeve before he packs up and goes home for the year. LSU Health Climatologist Barry Keim says while high temperatures were in the mid-80s yesterday, today they are in the 50s and upper 40s for north Louisiana.
Keim says temperatures will get below freezing tomorrow morning for north and central Louisiana.
Democrats in the legislature say their agenda in this year’s session will focus on affordability. House Democratic Caucus Chairman Kyle Green says while that includes things like prices we pay at the grocery stores and at the gas pumps, what it will not include in this session is a possible reduction in sales taxes.
Cut 4 (11) “…a budget shortfall.”
The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office says the deaths of three people, including a six-year-old boy, near Youngsville appears to be a double murder-suicide. They say 36-year-old Brett Richardson shot his 33-year-old wife, Kasie, and their son before turning the gun on himself.
The state department of transportation hopes to identify the location for the proposed Mississippi River Bridge south of Baton Rouge by the end of the year. Jeff Palermo has the story.