As areas struggle to recover from Hurricane Helene, Category Five Hurricane Milton packing maximum sustained winds of 160 miles an hour is threatening Florida. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says whether it makes landfall as a Category Five storm remains to be seen.

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Keim says even if the storm weakens, the storm surge will still be severe.

As Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida, the full extent of damage from the 4 hurricanes that have already landed on the Gulf Coast this year is still unknown, so is the impact on insurance rates. Insurance Information Institute spokesperson Mark Friedlander…

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Today is a day for celebration for us here at Louisiana Radio Network. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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Thanks to a new Louisiana law, 17-year-olds can now be tried as adults. Richard Webster did a study on this for Veritae News, examining the arrests of 17-year-olds in three of the state’s biggest parishes – Orleans, Jefferson and East Baton Rouge. There have been 203 arrested in those parishes since April.

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Webster says a relatively small percentage of crimes committed by 17-year-olds based on the study were violent in nature.