Police say an off-duty Westwego police officer and a women are dead after being gunned down in Jefferson Parish. Sheriff Newell Normand says 26-year-old Officer Michael Louviere leaves behind a wife and two children. He says these tragic incidents are the things officers worry when they go to bed at night.

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The suspect, 32-year-old Sylvester Holt, reportedly shot himself during a standoff with police.

Louisiana is looking at a wet and stormy weekend. State Climatologist Barry Keim says the Storm Prediction Center forecasts that majority of Louisiana could see strong winds, hail, and tornadoes.

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Keim says the greatest threat for severe weather could occur in northeast Louisiana on Saturday.

Former President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 330 federal inmates, with 23 of those in Louisiana. Michelle Southern has more…

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State senator Troy Brown will spend much of the weekend behind bars for his second domestic violence charge. Ascension Parish Sheriff Chief Deputy Bobby Webre says Brown will begins his 38-hour sentence Friday night. Brown pleaded no contest to allegations he bit his wife on the arm during an argument in July.