The cleanup continues today after the Governor’s Office estimates at least 7 tornadoes touched down in southeast Louisiana on Tuesday. Mike Steele with the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness says the state is very lucky that no one was killed….
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The Louisiana National Guard says they’ve mobilized 150 personnel to help with recovery efforts. There will be guardsmen at 25 traffic control points in New Orleans East.

Officials say three people were killed and seven injured in an explosion that occurred this morning at a packaging plant near DeRidder. Joe Toler is the chief deputy of the Beauregard Parish Sheriff’s office…
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Some of the injured were taken to a hospital in Rapides Parish. A cause for the exploision is not known.

State Police are looking for a father and son from Thibodaux who were allegedly involved in the kidnapping of a Lafayette man. Trooper Jesse Lagrange says the suspects are 45-year-old Jeffery Slack Senior and 20-year-old Jeffery Slack Junior…
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Four people have already been arrested in the case where the victim was taken to a residence in Thibodaux where he was restrained and beaten overnight.

East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore believes it will still be a few months before we hear a decision from the Department of Justice on whether charges are warranted against two police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling. Moore says once the decision comes down, they are expecting done peacefully and factually…
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