We’re well into November but there are an unusual high number of mosquitoes seen buzzing around for this time of year. Eric Gill reports…
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LSP has arrested an on duty Shreveport firefighter after trying to meet up with a minor and her mother for sexual encounters with both. Emelie Gunn has more…
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We’re well into November but, apparently, no one has told the mosquitoes. There are an unusual high number of mosquitoes seen buzzing around for this time of year. Colby Colona, President of the Louisiana Mosquito Control Association, says there is one big reason we’re seeing more of the pests and that’s weather…
She says warm temperatures and heavy rain events can trigger dormant mosquito eggs to hatch and that’s what’s happened here over the past three weekends. Colona hopes temperatures will become more fall or winter like sooner than later…
She says once cooler temperatures arrive, mosquitoes will enter a dormant stage and their numbers will drastically drop. Colona says until colder weather arrives, you should take proper precautions to avoid mosquito bites…
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The two candidates for governor touched on several key policy issues during last night’s debate hosted by Louisiana Public Broadcasting and the Council for a Better Louisiana. They each have vastly different views on the topic of education. Democrat John Bel Edwards says he’d support charter schools, but only if school districts felt they had a need for them…:
But Republican David Vitter, who supports charter schools without reservation, says limiting the opportunity to districts with low letter grades, would alienate thousands of students who happen to be in high a performing district…:
The two are also split on the direction they believe healthcare should be headed in the state. Edwards says he would immediately expand the traditional Medicaid program as governor, and it should have already been done…:
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But Vitter says he would only consider Medicaid expansion on Louisiana’s terms. He says states who have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, like Kentucky, have seen health care costs skyrocket…:
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Thunderstorm activity is expected across north Louisiana today and into tonight. Marty Mayeaux with the National Weather Service in Shreveport says a cold front is moving in bringing a chance of severe weather…
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He says there is a chance of isolated tornados throughout the region today. Mayeaux says these storms could bring about an inch of rain to the area…
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He says the cold front will bring much cooler temperatures to the state over the next few days. Mayeaux says the severe weather threat will diminish as the system moves east…
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A political analyst says there was no clear cut winner or loser in last night’s gubernatorial debate between Democrat John Bel Edwards and Republican David Vitter. LSU Political Science Professor Robert Hogan says each candidate held their own…
The debate got heated and personal toward the end. Edwards called Vitter a liar and a cheater, while Vitter accused the West Point graduate of not living by the Honor Code. Hogan says you can expect this type of back and forth between the candidates to continue through election day…
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Louisiana State Police arrested a Shreveport firefighter after he allegedly facilitated a meeting online with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl and her mother to have a sexual encounter with both. Trooper Matt Harris says 35-year-old Brian Garza was on duty when he chatted with the girl and arranged to meet her at a location. Harris says when Garza showed up, Troopers were waiting to arrest him…
Harris says Garza believed he was talking to a 13-year-old girl when it was actually an LSP agent on the other end. He says if Garza is convicted, he could be fined up to 75-thousand dollars and spend 70 years in prison.