Last night saw a second straight night of protests in Lafayette over the Friday night fatal police shooting of 31-year-old Trayford Pellerin, a black man who was armed with a knife and attempted to enter an occupied convenience store.  NAACP Lafayette President Mardja Broussard believes the police could have handled this better…
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The video appears to show Lafayette police shouting for Pellerin to stop walking before they tazed him to no effect. As he began to enter a convenience store, Lafayette Police officers fired their guns. Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory released a statement that supports how the officers handled the situation. State Police continues to investigate.

Tropical Storm Marco is fizzling out, as its maximum sustained winds are at 50 miles per hour. But Tropical Storm Laura is looming and it could be a Category Two hurricane when it makes landfall Wednesday night or Thursday morning in southwest Louisiana.

There have been a lot of changes with forecasts for Tropical Storm and Marco. State Climatologist Barry Keim says the weather community has had a challenge in developing forecasts for these storms as well as figuring out how they might influence each other…
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Marco is expected to make landfall late tonight or early tomorrow morning around Terrebonne and LaFourche Parishes and skirt along Louisiana’s coast tomorrow.

There was a concern that Marco would produce significant power outages, but that concern has been reduced. But Laura could be a different story as that’s expected to a be a powerful storm. Entergy Customer Service Vice President Melanie Stewart is asking customers for patience if the lights go out,…
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