An updated analysis from the LSU AgCenter finds agriculture losses from the August flooding totaled nearly 277-million dollars. The original estimate was 110-million dollars in damage. AgCenter Economist Kurt Guidry says rice and soybeans were the two hardest hit crops…:
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Agriculture losses from both the March and August floods are a combined 367-million dollars.

An Ascension parish man will spend the next five years behind bars after he beat his dog to death with a baseball bat. Jeff Dorson with the Humane Society of Louisiana says Jamari Jackson faced up to 10 years for the 2014 crime, but they are happy with the sentence he got…:
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Jackson reportedly claimed that he hit his dog because it was stuck in a barbed wire fence and he wanted to “relax” it to get it loose.

More bad news for flood victims. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says care insurance rates will go up in the affected areas…:
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An elderly Slidell man by the name of Lanier Lively was arrested on 500 counts of possession of child pornography that were found on 23 electronic devices at his home. Troopers say the man had over 31,000 gigs of suspected child pornography.