There’s a chance a tropical depression could be forming in the southern Gulf of Mexico over the weekend, or early next week. The batch of weather is currently a low pressure system in the Caribbean Sea. Some early models have it tracking over Florida once it enters the Gulf, but if it does makes its way here National Weather Service Slidell Meteorologist Megan Williams says it could bring with it some nasty weather.
Major storms are less likely to develop this late in Hurricane season, but Williams says the conditions are still there for some strengthening.
It’s been six months since the disappearance of a 4 year old in Claiborne Parish. Rondriez “Junior” Phillips wandered off while his step father was working on a car in the family’s yard on April 5th, and the search still continues with a reward offered by the FBI for information that helps find him. Sheriff Ken Bailey says although the tips do still come in, they aren’t coming in as often.
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Both parents of the child have seen legal troubles with arrests since the disappearance.
Iraq is set to buy 90,000 tons of American grown rice in a deal that more than triples the tonnage of the original request pushed by Congressman Ralph Abraham and others, and that’s big for Louisiana, which produces more rice than any other state. Abraham says the Iraqi appetite is growing…
The LSU AgCenter says Louisiana produced 2.7 billion pounds of rice in 2017, valued at 372.7 million dollars.
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