At the Olympics, former LSU pole vaulter and Lafayette native Mondo Duplantis, who competed for his mother’s home country of Sweden, vaulted 20 and a half feet to break the world record for the ninth time and win a gold medal. Duplantis says in the moment, he wasn’t focused on getting the world record, he was just focused on making the jump.

cut 3 (11) “…really good.”

 
There are more records going around, as triple-digit high temperatures expected across the state this week threaten to break temperature records. LSU Climatologist Barry Keim says Louisiana is baking under another heat dome…

cut 6 (10) “…Gulf of Mexico.”

Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, and is expected to introduce him at a rally in Philadelphia this evening. John Couvillon of JMC Analytics says Walz is a safe pick for the Harris campaign, adding Walz is…

cut 9 (10) “…Democratic Party.”

Before serving as governor, Walz was a teacher, member of Congress and command sergeant major in the Army National Guard.
An arrest has been made in connection to the July 22nd murder of a Marksville man. The Avoyelles Parish Sheriff’s Department say suspicious circumstances led them to arrest 19 year old Jacob Michot of Marksville for Principle to Second Degree Murder and Possession of Stolen Things related to the murder of Gary P. Normand of Marksville. Michot is still in APSO custody, and more arrests are expected.