Sally has now hit category one hurricane strength and sits 135 miles east-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi. It’s set to make landfall Tuesday somewhere between St. Bernard Parish and Biloxi. John Rahaim, director of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for St. Bernard, says they could get up to 11 feet of storm surge from this event, but everyone inside the levee system should be safe. Their main concern is the potential for several inches of rain in under an hour…
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Westfield Fluid Controls will invest 5.1 million dollars to establish a manufacturing facility in Lafayette, creating 67 new jobs for the area. Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson says the facility will produce precision hydraulic and fluid control components.
Unemployment recipients will be receiving their last federally boosted checks this week. Brooke Thorington has the story.
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The state’s lone fortune 500 company, CenturyLink, has changed its name to Lumen Technologies. The former CenturyLink is headquartered in Monroe, and in a press release from early today indicated the name change comes with a new purpose to help lead companies through the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”.