Hurricane Florence has made landfall in North Carolina, with the threat for life-threatening storm surge. LSU Department of Geography and Anthropology Professor Craig Colten says inland areas of the Carolinas have also not fared well with hurricanes…
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Colten says this storm could be another example that more needs to be done to prevent inland flooding.

Bossier Parish Sheriff Julian Whittington is back from a visit to Washington D-C where he had a chance to discuss border security with Trump administration officials. Whittington and other sheriffs around the country are raising money for a campaign to raise awareness about greater security along the U-S Mexico border. Whittington says the effort has the support of his home parish…
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The goal is to raise 100-thousand dollars.

The US Supreme Court will hear the appeal of a St. Tammany man who says the US Wildlife and Fisheries is illegally blocking him from developing his property on the Mississippi border. The site has been designated a critical habitat for the dusky gopher frog. But the property owner’s lawyer, Mark Miller, says it’s a government overreach because this particular frog doesn’t live there.
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But The Center for Biological Diversity says that’s not true and the landowner can still develop his property while still leaving habitat for the dusky gopher frogs.