NOAA’s outlook for the upcoming winter calls for drier and warmer conditions across Louisiana. So does this mean we’ll avoid below freezing temperatures this winter. State Climatologist Barry Keim says have your winter clothes ready….
cut 11 (09) “….or there”

The Louisiana Department of Health has been able to determine 49 cases of salmonella that hospitalized 31 people in Caldwell Parish. Doctor David Holcombe, with the state office of public health, says one person who showed symptoms associated with Salmonella poisioning died, but it’s still unclear if that is the cause of his death…
cut 4 (11) “….seven days”
Holcombe says they believe contaminated jambalaya served at a charity softball event caused the outbreak.

Pineville Police have made an arrest in the stabbing death of 42-year-old Latish White. A passerby found her body near the Pineville Expressway early Wednesday morning. Pineville Deputy Police Chief Darrell Basco says they learned 29-year-old Matthew Sonnier of Pineville was responsible for her death and arrested him in Alexandria…
Cut 6 (11) “apprehended him.”
Basco says Sonnier was a known acquaintance of White and they believe he stabbed her in his vehicle.

Doctor Craig Greene is getting ready to take over as the Public Service Commissioner that represents a large portion of south Louisiana. It’s the first time Greene has held political office and he plans to look at mistakes made in the past to guide his future decisions…
cut 13 (11) “…done wrong”