Tropical Storm Nate could threaten Louisiana. The storm is near the coast of Nicaragua and National Hurricane Specialist Robbie Berg says Nate will interact with land as it churns along the Nicaraguan and Honduras coast, plus it may go over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula….
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But the current projection has a Category One hurricane making landfall anywhere from southeast Louisiana to the Florida panhandle on Sunday morning.

An important fish for the Gulf of Mexico seafood industry has declined in size and LSU researcher Eugner Turner says rising sea surface temperatures are to blame….
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Turner says Menhaden had a dockside value of 129-million dollars in 2013 and that dollar amount will decline as the fish gets smaller.

State Police arrest a St. Joseph mother and charged her with first degree murder of her infant child, which was discovered Monday in a dumpster in Tensas Parish. An autopsy report of the one-day old baby found it died from blunt force trauma. 21-year-old Alicia Richard’s bond has been set at 200-thousand dollars.

Visitation is today for the Lafayette Police officer killed while responding to an incident at a convenience store. Michelle Southern reports…:
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