The LSU AgCenter estimates Hurricane Ida produced 584-million dollars in damages to the state’s agriculture industry. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Shreveport police say a woman is facing charges. She’s accused of throwing two of her own children off the Cross Lake Bridge late Friday morning. Eureka Black is charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder. Emergency responders found one of the children dead in the water, while a second was rescued and is expected to recover from non-life-threatening injuries.
A north Larose neighborhood that endured a ten-foot storm surge is dealing with almost a foot of sludge and standing water. Lafourche Parish President Archie Chaisson says the Industrial Park neighborhood was inundated with muck and mud from marsh waters that made it over the levees.
Chaisson says the Corps of Engineers, municipal crews, and private contractors are working to help clear roads, drainage ditches in addition to resident’s yards. He expects it will take another three weeks.
Organizations including Schoolplies are working to help kids get back in school after Hurricane Ida’s devastation in parishes that include Terrebonne and Lafourche. CEO Allie Casey says, that in partnership with the United Way of South Louisiana, hundreds of school supply kits will be given away tomorrow.
Classes begin Monday and the weekend event will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Fletcher Technical Community College