The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office says three people were killed today when a small plane crashed near the intersection of West Gloria Switch Road and LA 93. Sergeant Chris Cormier says the Baron Beechcraft was circling in the air before it crashed. The F-A-A will handle the investigation into the cause of the crash.
Children’s advocates are sounding the alarm with no end in sight to the federal government shutdown. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Four people are dead in a pair of house fires in Louisiana over the weekend. Ken Pastorick with the State Fire Marshal’s Office says one happened Saturday morning in Hessmer, in Avoyelles Parish.
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The other fire happened late Sunday night in Houma, in which a 70-year-old man was killed, while his brother suffered serious injuries. Pastorick says the causes of these fires are unknown at this time.
This was expected to be the smallest cotton crop in Louisiana recorded history and it has turned out to be even smaller than expected. LSU AgCenter Cotton Specialist Shelly Pate Kerns says low prices and concerns about severe storms or drought damaging the crop scared many farmers away from planting cotton…
And Kerns says as expected, the price cotton farmers are getting for their crop remains low.