Fat Tuesday festivities are well underway across south Louisiana. Here’s a sample of the Grambling State Marching Band in front of Gallier Hall in New Orleans…
cut 29 (12) “…music blaring”

Over in Eunice, they are celebrating a traditional Mardi Gras, with horseback riders chasing poultry in costume…
cut 1 (33) “….I’m Brooke Thorington”

An elderly Shreveport couple was killed yesterday afternoon in a three-vehicle wreck on US Highway 84 in Desoto Parish. 81-year-old Louis Flanigan and his wife 80-year-old wife, Inell Flanigan were pronounced dead at the scene. State Trooper Jonathan Odom says Louis was driving…
Cut 6 (12) “…the Jaguar.”
Odom says the Flanigan’s were not buckled up.

President Biden delivers his first State of the Union address tonight. During the Biden administration, the U.S. has seen skyrocketing fuel prices and inflation, a chaotic pull-out from Afghanistan, continued problems at the southern border, and now the Russia-Ukraine conflict. ULM Political Science Professor Joshua Stockley says the President should use tonight’s speech for some course correction…:
Cut 8 (15) “…foreign policy perspective.”
The State of the Union is at 8 PM.