Slow-moving Hurricane Sally is eyeing a landfall tomorrow along the Mississippi-Alabama coast as Louisiana is out of the cone of uncertainty. Matt Doyle has more on how the state is ready to help out its neighbors…
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A Storm surge warning is in effect from the mouth of the Mississippi River to Florida as Sally is barely moving this morning. Plaquemines Parish President Kirk Lepine says he’s watching Sally closely until the storm moves away from the Gulf Coast…
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Monroe-based Centurylink is changing its name to Lumen Technologies as its preparing for the fourth industrial revolution. The company says they want to create a platform so that its users can link their smart devices, home security, internet, and more through a high-speed infrastructure. But Lumen Consumer Markets President Maxine Moreau says the Centurylink name is not completely going away…
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Centurylink was founded in 1930 and employs over 40-thousand worldwide, 18-hundred in Louisiana.

The damage to the timber industry from Hurricane Laura is an estimated one-point-one billion dollars. That’s according to Louisiana Forestry Association executive director Buck Vandersteen…
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Vandersteen says Laura impacted 770-thousand acres of forest in 22 parishes.