The National Weather Service has issued another Red Flag Warning for all of southeast Louisiana today. National Weather Service Meteorologist Mike Efferson says the warning is in effect until six this evening.
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As such, you’re asked not to burn anything today; and if you smoke, don’t flick your cigarette butt out of your car window.
Louisiana classrooms are given the green light by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to put up Ten Commandments posters. This, after the full court vacated a three-judge panel’s earlier decision that found the state law requiring those classroom displays to be unconstitutional. Loyola University law professor Dane Ciolino says the full Fifth Circuit did not overturn the ruling; it instead said it was too soon for it to rule on whether it is or not.
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President Trump has approved Governor Landry’s request for a Major Disaster declaration for nine parishes in north Louisiana from last month’s massive ice storm. Mike Steele with GOHSEP says the costs incurred by governments have been wide-ranging and massive, with much more still to come.
American Airlines adds an additional non-stop round-trip flight between Monroe Regional Airport and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Monroe Regional Airport Director Charles Butcher says because of all the people traveling between the two cities for the Meta data center in Richland Parish and other projects, locals were getting squeezed out of the seats on the three existing daily round trips to and from DFW.
The additional round-trip gets underway April 7th.