A teenage girl is dead in a crash in Lafayette. Andrew Greenstein reports the driver should never have been driving the vehicle in the first place.

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LSU public health climatologist Barry Keim says the National Hurricane Center is keeping its eye on a tropical wave in the Caribbean Sea…

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Louisiana is holding a Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday weekend from Friday to Sunday. The sales tax exemption applies to all consumer purchases of firearms, ammunition, specified hunting supplies, like hunting apparel. Louisiana Department of Revenue spokesperson Byron Henderson says these purchases are NOT eligible…

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The exemption only applies to individual consumer purchases, not business or commercial purchases.

For the second time in as many weeks, a raccoon knocked out power in Terrebonne Parish. The latest one was Sunday, in which six-thousand customers lost power after a raccoon ended up in the Eddison power substation in Houma. Parish President Jason Bergeron (BAR-jer-on) says power outages have been a long-standing issue

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Bergeron says this comes as the parish continues repairing powerlines damaged by Hurricane Ida.