There is an enhanced risk of severe weather today and into the overnight hours for most of the state. Mike Steele, with the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, says stormy weather will arrive in northwest Louisiana this afternoon and the threat for tornadoes exists for south Louisiana during the overnight hours…
Much of the southern half of the state is also under a flash flood watch tonight through tomorrow.
State Police investigators have released more details about the death of an inmate yesterday at the St. Mary Parish Courthouse. Trooper Derek Senegal says Investigators are trying to figure out what led up to the incident between the inmate and a correctional officer.
The inmate was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
The executive director of the Louisiana Association of School Superintendents says Louisiana is one of only 13 states that require all high school juniors to take the ACT test. Michael Faulk says the requirement is outdated.
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Faulk says students who are not planning on going to college shouldn’t have to take the ACT test because they are not taught classes that prepare them for it.
The Department of Transportation and Development is hosting a meeting tonight in Lake Charles about the I-10 Calcasieu River Bridge. Lake Charles Representative Phillip Tarver says concerned residents need to attend this meeting.
Tarver says the new bridge is expected to be constructed just north of the current one.