For the first time ever, the number of Republican active registered voters in Louisiana exceeds the number of Democratic active registered voters. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The National Hurricane Center says an area of low press off the east coast of Florida has a low chance to developing into a tropical depression once it moves into the northeastern Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday night. Forecasters say the system could produce localized flash flood over the north-central Gulf through the middle to the latter portion of this week.
A police chase in Lincoln Parish ends with deputies shooting and killing the driver they were chasing. Deputy Amanda Lyon with the Northeast Louisiana Sheriff’s Investigative Unit says deputies attempted a traffic stop Saturday night, but the driver instead took off.
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Lyon says the pursuit lasted for about 16 miles, coming to an end on U.S. 167 near Paradise Point Lane, when the suspect exited the vehicle and refused to put down his weapon and then pointed it at deputies and Lyon says that’s when officers fired at him. The man died at the scene.
Measles cases in the United States have their highest number in more than 30 years. Doctor Fred Lopez with the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans, says your best defense against the highly contagious and deadly disease is to get vaccinated.