Kathleen Blanco’s family wants the public to know the former governor is not as close to death as reports indicated this week when it was announced she was in hospice care. Advocate Reporter Tyler Bridges spoke with Blanco’s husband, Raymond Blanco, and he says his wife is still active despite her terminal cancer
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Bridges says Blanco can no longer walk, but is getting around with the help of an electric wheelchair.

Two-point-one million has been raised through GoFundMe for the three historically black churches burned down by a suspected arsonist. Seventh District Missionary Baptist Association spokesperson Mason Jack…
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NOAA now says that Hurricane Michael, which hammered the Florida panhandle last year was a Category Five storm when it made landfall. It’s the fourth storm in recorded history that was a Cat 5 at the time of landfall. Two of those storms reached peak strength along the Gulf Coast. State Climatologist Barry Keim says Hurricane Camille in 1969 was the other……
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The 2019 Louisiana Survey shows a majority of Louisiana residents oppose gun restrictions as 57-percent oppose banning the sale of assault weapons and 61-percent oppose banning high capacity ammunition magazines. LSU Public Policy Research Lab director Doctor Michael Henderson says they asked respondents about three different proposals to restrict firearms and only one received majority support…
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Henderson says 69-percent of those polled say a law should be put in place to prevent people with mental illness from purchasing guns.