Two people are dead from a plane crash in south Louisiana. The small aircraft went down near Raceland. Authorities have identified the victims as Lyle Pannepinto and Lauren Menkemeller. Lafourche Parish President Archie Chaisson says Pannepinto is the owner of Southern Seaplanes and Menkemeller was training as a pilot for the company…
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash.
The new tariffs President Trump has imposed on nearly all of the United States trading partners, means shrimp coming from India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand will have a tariff rate of 26 to 46-percent. Leann Bosard, a board member at the Southern Shrimp Alliance is glad to see the cost of imported shrimp will now be higher…
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Bossard hopes this will result in an increase in consumption for domestic caught shrimp.
The hurricane forecast team at Colorado State University is calling for an above-average hurricane season. Researcher Lauren Beard says warm water in the Atlantic will help produce 17 named storms, nine hurricanes and four major hurricanes and the chances of an El Nino developing in the season are low. Beard says based on their research; there’s a 33-percent chance that a major hurricane will hit the Gulf Coast…
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The C-S-U team will update its forecast on June 11th.
Gas prices are on the rise. Supply is down as refineries shut down to switch to a summer blend gasoline. The statewide average for a regular gallon of gasoline in Louisiana is $2.82, but Triple-A’s Don Redman says if you go out west it’s much more expensive…
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