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DCFS is offering a limited-time promotion called “On the Road Again” to assist parents who have lost their driver’s licenses due to unpaid child support. Child Support Enforcement Director Konitra Jack says this initiative provides non-custodial parents whose licenses have been administratively suspended by DCFS a chance to have them reinstated at a reduced fee.

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The promotion ends October 31

There have been multiple black bears sighting in Pointe Coupee Parish.  Sheriff Rene Thibodeaux has raised concerns about the increasing number of black bears in the area, stating the parish is “overrun” with them.

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Thibodeaux urges residents who come across a black bear to keep their distance.

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A Canadian biofuels firm is proposing what will be the world’s largest carbon-negative renewable natural gas plant in St. John the Baptist Parish. Colleen Crain reports…

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Millions of people living on the Gulf Coast are being urged to prepare as Invest 97L continues to become better organized and will likely become Tropical Storm or Hurricane Helene in the coming days as the system enters the Gulf of Mexico.  In fact, experts say Tropical Storm Helene by the middle of the week and she could make landfall along the coast, somewhere between Louisiana and Florida by late Thursday.