Local Christmas tree farmers say this season is shaping up to be their busiest ever. Brooke Thorington explains.
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Law enforcement is cracking down on drunk driving this Thanksgiving weekend. Trooper Ross Brennan says those caught driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs will be arrested…
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Thousands of families are cooking a turkey for Thanksgiving tomorrow. To make sure your bird is properly cooked, USDA food safety expert Meredith Caruthers says poke a food thermometer in three different places of the turkey…
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For other advice call 1-888-MPHotline even on Thanksgiving day.

The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness says 13-hundred travel trailers serving as a temporary housing solution have been deployed to the parishes hardest hit by Hurricane Ida. Families are occupying 820 of those units. GOHSEP Acting Director Casey Tingle says the current pace of trailers being newly occupied is about 40 a day…
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Tingle says their goal is to have about two-thousand families housed by the first part of December and they are on pace to do that.