An investigation determines hospital staff contacted the Department of Children and Family Services three times about potential substance abuse involving a two-year-old child, before he died of a fentanyl overdose. Kevin Gallagher reports…
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A Baton Rouge Representative Larry Selders faces DWI charges after troopers saw him doing burnouts in his Dodge Challenger near LSU early Sunday morning. He was also charged with Reckless Operation and Driving Under Suspension.
The northern half of the state is under a flash flood watch through tomorrow night. National Weather Service meteorologist Davyon Hill says a stalled frontal boundary has set up over the I-20 corridor and four to six inches is likely across the area, but there’s the potential for as much as eight inches for some areas.
Several Calcasieu Parish School buildings are still under repair from Hurricane Laura—which struck southwest Louisiana two years ago. One of the strongest storms to ever make landfall in Louisiana did at least 400 million dollars’ worth of damage to the schools alone. But Schools superintendent Shannon LaFargue says they’ve made a lot of progress.
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