Tropical Depression number 16 is now Tropical Storm Nate near the Nicaragua coast and it’s expected to head north and become a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico this weekend. National Hurricane Specialist Robbie Berg says a landfall along the Gulf Coast is likely on Sunday….
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The latest cone of uncertainty has a Category One storm making landfall anywhere from southeast Louisiana to the Florida panhandle.

Law enforcement arrested 20 people in Winn Parish as part of a large scale drug bust operation. Suspects are accused of distributing large amounts of methamphetamines. Winn Sheriff Cranford Jordans says the investigation began as a result of a lot of crime in the Winnfield area…
cut 9 (10) “….domestic abuse”
Visitation begins tonight for Lafayette Police Corporal Michael Middlebrook, who was gunned down Sunday night in a shooting outside of a convenience store. Lafayette Police Chief Toby Aguillard says when fellow officers arrived, they kneeled in respect then took off in pursuit of the suspect….
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An LSU study finds the Menhaden, a small silver fish along the Gulf Coast is shrinking as ocean temperatures rise. Professor Eugene Turner says they have reduced in size by about 15-percent over the past 65 years, because there is less oxygen in warmer water…
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Smaller menhaden means less food for birds, whales, dolphins, red fish and bass.