President Donald Trump signs a revised immigration order prohibiting new visas for citizens from six Middle Eastern countries. Emelie Gunn has local reaction…

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Three confederate monuments will be taken down in New Orleans, after a federal appeals court sides with the city. The City Council ordered the removal of statues of Robert e Lee, PGT Beauregard and Jefferson Davis after 9 African Americans were murdered at a South Carolina church, but the Monumental Task Committee filed a suit to block their removal. But after the court’s ruling, the statues are coming down.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for the Rapides Parish District Attorney to remove John Guandolo as a speaker in a police training program because they say he promotes anti-Muslim conspiracies. But DA Phillip Terrell says there are no plans to remove him, and this seminar isn’t directed at anyone.

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Terrell says this seminar is sponsored by law enforcement agencies around the country.

The Tensas Parish town of St. Joseph is finally getting a new water system, as ground was broken today to replace the old system that has lead in it. The governor’s deputy chief of staff, Julie Baxter Payer, says they will supply clean drinking water for residents until the project is completed in September.

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The system will have 12 miles of new pipe and 525 new meters.