The Walker, Central, and Denham Springs mayors are in the nation’s capital to discuss FEMA’s performance during last month’s historic flooding. Jeff Palermo has more…:
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President Barack Obama has announced the federal government will increase its cost-share for flood relief efforts in Louisiana from 75-percent to 90-percent. Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne says the state has to pay for a lot of the repairs up front, so decreasing the state and local share will help tremendously…:
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September 10th is the technical peak of hurricane season. State Climatologist Barry Kiem says up to this point, Louisiana has been pretty lucky in terms of named storms, however a tropical wave brought south Louisiana record flooding last month. He says we’ll likely end the season a little above the average of 12 named storms…:
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He says it’s all downhill from this point but people still need to realize that we still have a half of a season out in front of us.

A middle school football team in Livingston Parish which lost everything in the unprecedented flooding has received a $20,000 donation to rebuild their program. Southside Junior High in Denham Springs nearly had to cancel the season, but after a post on Facebook expressing the team’s needs went viral, donations started pouring in. NFL players Charles Tillman and Benjamin Watson gave $5,000 each.

LSU Football Coach Les Miles says as far as he knows, running back Leonard Fournette will play in tomorrows’s home opener against Jacksonville State, but declined to say whether Fournette has practiced this week.