Jeff Landry is in South Korea for his first economic development mission trip as governor. Jeff Palermo has more…
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Later this week, people in one northeast Louisiana community will be told to be home by midnight. Andrew Greenstein explains.
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Following an all-day search that involved multiple agencies, a ten-year-old Livingston Parish boy who disappeared from his home is found safe. Sheriff Jason Ard says ten-year-old Brody Sturdivant ran away from home after being punished, and this isn’t the first time this has happened.
Sheriff Ard says Brody was found underneath a house in a neighborhood not too far from his own.
Ard says even though the boy has been found safe, the investigation is ongoing.
The FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service assisted in the search.
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Jeff Landry is conducting his first overseas economic development trip as governor as he’s in South Korea. The governor’s office says Landry is there to strengthen relationships with major South Korean companies currently doing business in Louisiana or considering future investment in the state. Economist Doctor Loren Scott says the cheap price of natural gas makes Louisiana an attractive place to invest…
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Scott says the price of natural of gas is also cheap in south Texas so there’s competition in attracting companies from Asia who are looking to produce material using natural gas.
According to the governor’s office, South Korea is Louisiana’s fourth largest import market and Korea is also the world’s third largest liquefied natural gas importer in the world, which includes exports from two different LNG facilities in south Louisiana.
Scott says these face to face visits in other countries can result in more jobs and investment in Louisiana…
The governor’s office did not say when Governor Landry will return to Louisiana.
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Today is the last day for early voting in the presidential election here in Louisiana.
John Couvillon (COO-vee-ahn) with JMC Analytics says while the early voting in polling places is up from four years ago, the mail-in ballots are considerably down from that time. He says he does not expect the state to reach the one-million early vote mark at the end of the day today.
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Couvillon says in this case, the side more interested in early voting is the Republicans, which is highly unusual.
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If you do not vote today, your last chance will be on Election Day one week from today at your assigned precinct.
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The City of Tallulah, in Madison Parish, will be imposing a curfew later this week. Starting November 1st, no one will be allowed on the streets between midnight and five a-m. City spokeswoman Yvonne Lewis says the police chief is taking the action with the blessing of the mayor and city council.
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Lewis did not elaborate on what those issues are. Of course, if you have a reason to be out during those times, such as going to work or returning home from work, that’s okay. Lewis says they’re not looking to charge anyone with a crime for simply being out past curfew.
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Lewis says the curfew will be in place indefinitely.
Days before the curfew was announced, the principal of Madison High School ordered students to leave backpacks at home this week. Lewis said this is so that any issues that are persisting in the city do not spill over into the school community.