Eleven servicemen are missing, including four soldiers from a Hammond, Louisiana-based National Guard Unit after the helicopter they were riding in crashed in the Florida panhandle. Search crews have found a debris site, but a rescue operation for the missing soldiers continues. CBS News reports that weather may have been a factor in the crash.

Effective this week, the Office of Motor Vehicles will issue a new format for all classes of Louisiana driver’s licences. State Police Sgt. Nick Manale says there’s also a new design for I-D cards and handicap placards…
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Manale says the new licenses contain multiple layers of security components and design features for greater security, protection of privacy and resistance to tampering.

Two men are in trouble after the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries allegedly found that they changed the freshness date on frozen mahi-mahi filets. The incident happened at a wholesale facility in New Orleans and Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries spokesperson Adam Einck says the seafood ‘s original freshness date was September 2013, but they put the seafood in bags that had a best by date of May 2016. Einck says 26-year-old Seth Delaune and 49-year-old Thomas Smith were cited with misbranding seafood…
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Gubernatorial candidate John Bel Edwards has received an endorsement from the Louisiana A-F-L/C-I-O. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says it’s a signficant endorsement for the democratic state representative….
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Edwards is the only announced democratic candidate for governor.