Two plane crashes occurred in Louisiana today, killing four people. A small aircraft went down around 11 o’ clock this morning near Gloria Switch Road and Louisiana Highway 93. And hours later, one person died in a plane crash in wooded area of Jackson Parish, about five miles away from the Ruston airport.
Children’s advocates are sounding the alarm with no end in sight to the federal government shutdown. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The State Fire Marshal’s office says four people died, including a ten-year-old boy, in two separate fires that took place over the weekend. State Fire Marshal spokesperson Ken Pastorick says three people died in a blaze in Avoyelles Parish and a 70-year-old man was killed Sunday night in a fire in Houma. Pastorick says the cause of the fires is not known…
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This was expected to be the smallest cotton crop in Louisiana recorded history and it has turned out to be even smaller than expected. LSU AgCenter Cotton Specialist Shelly Pate Kerns says low prices and concerns about severe storms or drought damaging the crop scared many farmers away from planting cotton…