The summer heat these days in Louisiana has been brutal. State Climatologist Barry Keim says the cause of these runs of extremely warm weather is a dome of high pressure that’s sitting over the southeastern United States. He says Baton Rouge has gone six straight days with temperatures of 96 degrees or greater and hit 98 on Monday…

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Keim says you should try to stay indoors during peak heat hours.

The Tabasco Sauce Factory in Iberia Parish is set to open a new restaurant, museum and expanded tours at their Visitors Center on Avery Island. Vice President of Administration Cecil Hymel says visitors will now be able to see parts of the plant never seen before…

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Hymel says the new restaurant called “1868″, will open around August 10th.

Today, Seth Fontenot will be re-sentenced on his manslaughter and aggravated battery conviction in a 2013 shooting that killed 15-year-old Austin Rivault and injured two others. In July, Fontenot was sentenced to 3 years at hard labor with all but 13 months suspended. But state law prevents a judge from suspending the sentence of someone convicted of a crime of violence. Legal analyst Tim Meche says the decision rests on Judge Rubin’s shoulders…

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Prosecutors want Judge Rubin to sentence Fontenot to at least 10 years in prison while Fontenot’s attorneys want a lighter sentence of 13 months.