Many Mardi Gras revelers will keep one eye on the parades and one eye on the skies as threatening weather may put a damper on their celebrations. Danielle Manning with the National Weather Service in Slidell says Saturday and Sunday will be soggy…
Drax Biomass is relocating its headquarters from Atlanta to Monroe, in what Governor John Bel Edwards is hailing as another big win for Louisiana’s economy. Drax already operates two wood pellet manufacturing facilities and a shipping operation in the state. Monroe Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Sue Nicholson says that means 150 good paying jobs are on the way.
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Governor John Bel Edwards has set today as the deadline to call a February special session. Matt Doyle talked to LAPolitics.com about what the governor might do.
A Texas prisoner has confessed to three New Orleans murders. 48-year-old Joseph Brandt confessed to killing the women in 2007 and 2008. Brandt is serving time on a burglary charge in the Lone Star state. He agreed to a deal that will spare him the death penalty. After giving detailed confessions, a judge set his total bail at three-million-dollars.