Newly formed Tropical depression number nine has formed in the Caribbean and the National Hurricane Center’s first official forecast track has the storm developing into the Gulf of Mexico this weekend. State Climatologist Barry Keim says the developing storm is expected to make landfall along the Louisiana coast Sunday night or early Monday morning…
Keim says there’s the potential this could develop into a major storm.
Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin says he will not enact a coronavirus emergency plan for the fall elections. Ardoin says that means no expanded absentee-by-mail voting or expanded early voting…
Ardoin says an emergency election plan is not needed since COVID vaccines are widely available.
There’s been an arrest in Mississippi of a murder suspect in connection with the death of an 8-year-old Houma girl. Houma police say 23-year-old Davanta Verrett was arrested early this morning in Gulfport and is awaiting extradition. Police say there was an ongoing dispute with the child’s mother and the child, Treyce Bryant was caught in the crossfire in March.
The Biden Administration announces it will comply with a federal court ruling requiring it to restart oil and gas lease sales. Matt Doyle has the story.