A big economic development announcement, as Our Lady of the lake and the Louisiana Children’s Medical Center will invest nearly a quarter-billion dollars – in cooperation with LSU – to create a cancer center with National Cancer Institute designation. LCMC CEO Greg Feirn says that NCI designation is a big deal; both for research and for patient care..:

CUT 10(06)      “…think LSU.”

There is a statewide burn ban going into effect tomorrow, due to drought all over Louisiana. Just last Saturday, there was a ten-acre grass fire in Livingston Parish. State Fire Marshal’s spokesperson Ashley Rodrigue asks, if you see someone violating the burn ban, please call your local fire department…:

CUT 14(08)      “…the Fire Marshal order”

The ban will remain in effect until drought conditions improve.

A Natchitoches Parish man is dead and another hurt, after scaffolding they were working on in the town of Cloutierville made contact with an electrical wire. Both men were exposed to over 7-thousand volts. 40-year-old Joshua Ward, of Provencal, was pronounced dead at the scene. Another man received only moderate injury.

Deputies in East Baton Rouge Parish seek the suspect in a weekend murder at a local motel near I-10. The victim is ID’ed at 31-year-old Charlton Henry. The shooter is unknown and still at large.

Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Gary Chambers certainly knows how to get attention, and it appears to be paying off in campaign cash. In online ads, Chambers has recently smoked weed and burned a rebel flag … and he’s raised over $600-thousand since last month for his challenge of Senator John Kennedy this fall. U.L.-Lafayette political science professor Pearson Cross says the radical tactic seems to be working…:

CUT 07(12)      “…about his campaign.”

Kennedy remains the overwhelming favorite to win re-election.