Come January 1st, whenever you buy seafood at the store or order seafood at your favorite restaurant, you will know whether it comes from Louisiana. A new law goes into effect that day requiring restaurants and distributors to clearly disclose where the seafood was caught.

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That’s Marrero Senator Patrick Connick, who authored the law. Connick says the new law also increases the fines and penalties for businesses that do not clearly mark the seafood’s orgin on the packaging or menu.

An 11-year-old boy is killed in a house fire in Richland Parish. Firefighters were called out to the burning home in Rayville Christmas morning. Two people made it out, but the 11-year-old boy didn’t. Assistant Fire Chief Rusty Edwards of the State Fire Marshal’s Office says the fire started in the boy’s bedroom.

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A hunter is recovering after he was shot by another hunter. It happened in East Baton Rouge Parish in Zachary. Lieutenant Jared Riddle with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says the hunter saw rustling in the bushes and thought it was a deer and shot.  Once he realized it was a person, he went to help.

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The injured hunter was shot in the arm and airlifted to a Baton Rouge hospital. His injuries are not life-threatening. LDWF cited the shooter for hunting deer without possessing deer tags and for not wearing hunter’s orange. The hunter shot was also not wearing hunter’s orange.

Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser heads to Pasadena, California, today where once again the state will have a Louisiana themed float in the Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year’s Day. Nungesser says having a float in this parade gets up to 40-million dollars in media coverage….

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Nungesser says the float’s theme is Louisiana Saturday Night and it will give parade viewers an idea of what a Saturday night in Louisiana is like.