Temperatures are in the 50s today in north Louisiana, but don’t let that fool you. LSU Health Climatologist Barry Keim says conditions are really going to deteriorate tomorrow, as an ice storm is going to blanket the upper half of the state this weekend.
With the ice storm coming, SWEPCO crews are getting ready. Spokesman Michael Corbin says crews are getting in place.
Corbin says SWEPCO works closely with the offices of emergency preparedness in each parish in its service area so that it has the latest information on road conditions, so that they can relay that information to their crews out in the field. Corbin says SWEPCO prepares for these kinds of storms year round.
As some in St. Landry Parish are pushing for the re-legalization of cockfighting, the parish council is asking Attorney General Liz Murrill for her opinion on whether the state’s law banning it is unconstitutional. During last night’s council meeting, Nadea Comeaux told the council cockfighting is, in her opinion, wholesome entertainment.
Cut 4 (10) “…involved in that.”
It’s a federal crime to attend an animal fighting event, and cockfighting is illegal at the state level in all 50 states, with Louisiana the last state to outlaw it in 2008.
Congressman Troy Carter is among the sponsors of a bipartisan bill that would require all middle school and high school student IDs and websites to include mental health and suicide prevention information, including the 988 suicide prevention hotline.
Cut 23 (08) “…is totally anonymous.”