Governor Jeff Landry signs an executive order that directs the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services to seek a waiver from the USDA that would ban food stamp recipients from using their benefits to purchase sodas and candy. Landry says if SNAP recipients want to buy these products, they can use their own money…
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Two children were found locked in car seats inside a house in Webster Parish with no adult supervision, and one of them has died. Minden Police were called to the house mid-morning yesterday on a report of a two-year-old child being found unresponsive inside the house. The girl could not be resuscitated. Minden Police Chief Jared McIver says investigators are trying to determine exactly how the little girl died.
Chief McIver says investigators also want to know who was supposed to be home supervising the children.
The Breaux Bridge Crawfish festival is this weekend. There have been reports with other festivals in the state serving imported seafood, but Publicity director of the Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival, Anquelique Bernard says the mudbugs at their festival are harvested from Louisiana waterways…
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Today there will be a crawfish eating contest today. Contestants will try to eat two and a half pounds of crawfish as fast as they can.
Another hurricane season begins June 1st and this year the National Hurricane Center will begin issuing official forecasts 72 hours out if they believe a tropical wave or disturbance will intensify quickly and impact land…
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That’s Director Michael Brennan, who says Hurricane Helene quickly intensified into a Category 4 hurricane last year and caused significant damage in Florida.