The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office has made a positive identification on a decomposing, dismembered body found in July of 2016. Lt. Adam Rudolph says Kleanthis Konstantinidis (Kle-anthis Kon-stan-ti-ni-dis) is the victim, and the prime suspect Phillip Pointer is also deceased. But where the murder took place and a motive Rudolph says remains a mystery.
Since 2006 rural areas in Louisiana continue to lose nonfarm jobs and economist Dr. Loren Scott predicts the trend will continue into 2025 among the 29 parishes outside the state’s nine metropolitan areas. He predicts close to 3,000 job losses, but some rural areas are seeing a boon, specifically those related to the timber industry.
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The wet summer and dry fall are frustrating many rice and crawfish farmers. Rice producers experienced very wet conditions during harvest in July and August. LSU AgCenter Rice specialist Doctor Ronnie Levy says because a lot of rice farmers also have crawfish ponds dry conditions will only increase the cost to harvest mudbugs next year…
He says pumping water into the crawfish ponds is costly….
If you suffer from autumn allergies, you might be blaming the wrong culprit. LSU Ag center horticulturist Heather Kirk-Ballard says fall is prime ragweed season, even though goldenrod, which is more visible, usually gets the blame.