President Trump approves Governor Landry’s request for a Major Disaster Declaration for nine parishes impacted by last month’s winter storm. Here’s Andre Champagne.
Cut 1 (35) “…I’m Andre Champagne.”
One person was killed and two were injured in an “industrial accident” at a Belle Rose plant on Sunday. Assumption Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness Director Paul LeBlanc says a crew was doing a routine pressure test on a brine well at the GIE plant off Grand Bayou Road when a loose hose struck three people, killing one. The other two were air lifted to the hospital.
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Louisiana classrooms are given the green light by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to put up Ten Commandments posters. This, after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a three-judge panel’s earlier decision that found the state law requiring those classroom displays to be unconstitutional. Loyola University law professor Dane Ciolino says the full Fifth Circuit did not overturn the ruling; it instead said it was too soon for it to rule on whether it is or not.
Cut 13 (09) “…in the abstract.”
American Airlines adds an additional non-stop round-trip flight between Monroe Regional Airport and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Monroe Regional Airport Director Charles Butcher says locals were getting squeezed out of the seats on the three existing daily round trips to and from DFW.