The state’s Public Service Commission looks at ways to help prevent massive power outages, after numerous weather-related events have tested the state’s power grids. Brooke Thorington has more…:
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A Farmerville man is a “guest” of the Union Parish jail after crashing his pickup truck through the wall of the Union Parish Library. Farmerville Police say 36-year-old Mickey Mitchell was driving while impaired, in possession of drugs and had no auto insurance at the time. He’s also charged as a Fugitive from Justice due to four outstanding warrants.
Preparations are underway for Governor Edwards’ signing of a document officially pardoning the late Homer Plessy for the then-19th century crime of trying to sit in the white section of a segregated train headed to Covington. The governor was asked about the pardon on Wednesday’s “Ask the Governor” statewide radio program…:
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The posthumous pardon was unanimously granted to Plessy, who died in 1925, last week by the Louisiana Pardons and Parole Board.
You may want to either stay up really late, or GET up really early to have a look at tonight’s near-total lunar eclipse. It should start around midnight and LSU Astronomy professor Geoff Clayton says it’ll reach its peak at about 3 a.m…:
CUT 04(09) “…probably won’t notice.”
Hopefully our skies will be clear by that time, so we can enjoy it.