A Clinical Psychologist at LSU Health New Orleans says the mass panic and conflicting reports of a shooter at a Walmart in Baton Rouge yesterday may be the result of the psychological impact of recent mass shootings. Authorities say a gun was drawn during an altercation, but despite multiple eyewitness accounts, authorities are saying no shot was ever fired. Despite conflicting reports Michelle Moore says a community belief can come into play.
A similar event happened last night in Times Square in New York City after a motorcycle muffler went off.
The East Baton Rouge Flood Risk Reduction Project receives the greenlight on federal dollars needed to complete the $255 million undertaking. Transportation and Drainage Director for EBR Parish Fred Raiford says about 66 miles of drainage channels will be improved as part of the project.
Raiford says the model testing is happening now, with labor starting as early as February
Ag Commissioner Mike Strain says the future of agriculture in Louisiana may look a lot different in five years. He says climate change is allowing farmers to grow crops farther north than they have in the past, which means we could see some interesting new additions…
Cut 3 (08) “…of marketable crops”
Strain made the comments yesterday at Qualifying.
Navy veteran Patrick “Livewire” Landry is the third Republican to enter the governor’s race alongside Eddie Rispone and Congressman Ralph Abraham. The New Orleans native is an artist, who brought a few of his politically themed, interpretive drawings with him, most of which were geared towards attacking the state’s more left-leaning residents. Landry called the Governor a liberal, and…
Landry faces Governor John Bell Edwards, Rispone and Abraham in the October 12 primary.