Last Thursday’s torrential rainfall in Avoyelles Parish is one step closer to being an official state record. A volunteer observer measured 29.06 inches of rain within a 12-hour period three miles southeast of Cottonport. Jonathan Brazzell (“Brazil”) is with the National Weather Service.
The previous state record for highest rainfall total in a 24-hour period was set in the Cameron Parish town of Hackberry in 1962.
The other big story in the state is Reverend Tony Spell. The controversial pastor in Central near Baton Rouge faces second-degree battery charge after a fistfight caught on video with his neighbor’s 20-year-son son. Spell says he’s reported his neighbors to the Central Police Department on numerous occasions, but Central Police Chief Roger Corcoran says they only have one complaint on file…
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Construction is underway on a 30-million-dollar renovation to the Shrine on Airline. Kace Kieschnick reports.
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The Lott Oil Company has been named the 2026 NFIB Small Business Champion for Louisiana. The NFIB says Lott Oil began as a small fuel distributor with a single truck and two employees and it has grown into one of Louisiana’s largest family-owned fuel and lubricant providers.