5:30 PM LRN Newscast Sept. 2

The state Department of Health reports four seniors have died after being evacuated to a facility in Tangipahoa Parish. The persons were brought out of areas in the hurricane’s strongest path. Definitive causes of death have NOT yet been established. LDH expressed concerns about conditions at the Tangipahoa facility.

Hurricane Ida recovery efforts are being hampered by the lack of available gasoline and power for gas pumps in southeast Louisiana. Brooke Thorington has more from the Governor…:

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President Biden will tour hurricane-damaged areas of Louisiana tomorrow.  Earlier today, he gave an update on how the federal government is helping the Bayou State recover from Ida.  It includes working to increase the supply of gasoline.

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A Keithville man is behind bars in Caddo Parish on multiple child sex charges that date back as far as four decades ago.  Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Cindy Chadwick says it was this past July that a complaint filed alleging 57-year-old Clemon Hanson, Sr. forced a juvenile to watch pornography that got things rolling against him.

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Charges against Hanson include the aggravated rape of a 12-year-old when Hanson was 19. He’s being held on a 900-thousand-dollar bond.