The LaFourche Parish Council will issue a proclamation today marking the 130th anniversary of the Thibodaux Massacre. It’s one of the most violent incidents in American history, when white mobs shot black men and women after sugar cane workers went on strike in Lafourche and Terrebonne. President of the 1887 Memorial John DeSantis says this is important…:
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The incident occurred on November 23, 1887.

If you want to know if there is a certain illness going around in your area, there’s an app for that. It’s called Sickweather and CEO Graham Dodge says, like the WAZE traffic app, they use the public’s help to track sick people…:
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Sickweather is available on Google Play and the Apple store for free.

The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness will lead the state’s efforts during “Operation Great River,” a Preventative Radiological and Nuclear Detection full-scale exercise on the Mississippi River near the Port of Baton Rouge, tomorrow. This exercise is designed to test and evaluate several agencies of tactics, communications, source detection and identification and their ability to obtain products, services and materials.

Black Friday is next week and retailers are gearing up for a busy shopping season. An October survey from a tax counseling firm found that online holiday shopping is expected to beat in-store sales for the first time. But LSU Marketing Professor Dan Rice says brick and mortar stores can be still very profitable…:
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Rice expects this year to be better for Louisiana retailers, because of the flooding last year.