It’s going to be an amazing weekend outside to enjoy some football and an outdoor BBQ. Emelie Gunn reports on this fall-like cold front:
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A Marine who was killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash during a training exercise in California was from Louisiana, according to military officials. 21-year-old Corporal Bryan Lauw of Denham Springs graduated from Live Oak in 2012 and became a Marine the following June. Officials say the incident also injured 18 other Marines at a seaside base north of San Diego and remains under investigation.

Authorities in New Orleans say an NOPD officer was injured by shrapnel when he was shot at when responding to a crime scene Friday. The police department says the officer is going to be okay and that he was hurt when the bullet fired at him passed through his patrol car’s windshield. A 28-year-old man was shot and killed in the incident and NOPD officer, Kenneth Gill, was sent to the hospital according to a news release. The suspects in this incident are at large.

A former state legislator, who served two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to money laundering charges in 2008, announces that he is once again seeking office. Derrick Shepherd, a Democrat from Marrero, qualified to run for the 87th District House seat Thursday. Political analyst Clancy Dubos says whether Shepherd, a convicted felon, will remain on the ballot remains to be seen.
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