Hurricane warnings have been dropped in Louisiana as Hurricane Sally is eyeing a landfall tomorrow along the Mississippi-Alabama border. The Category One hurricane is barely moving and the center of the storm is 65 miles east of the mouth of the Mississippi River. National Weather Service meteorologist Robert Ricks says coastal parishes on the east side of the Mississippi River could still see some effects from Sally…
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Historic flooding is possible in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida because of Sally’s slow movement. Governor John Bel Edwards says he spoke to Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves…
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Sally is expected to drop eight to 16 inches of rain from the Florida panhandle to southeastern Mississippi, two feet of rain is possible in isolated areas.

Monroe-based Fortune 500 Company CenturyLink has a new name, Lumen Technologies. Matt Doyle has the story.
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The state reported 497 new coronavirus cases yesterday bringing the state’s total to nearly 158-thousand. COVID-19 deaths rose by 17 to 5,082. The number of COVID-19 patients in the hospital fell by 16 to 664 and the number of COVID patients using a ventilator fell by two, to 105.