If you’re planning on flying out of New Orleans this week, plan ahead – far ahead. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Also in New Orleans, a water main busted in uptown New Orleans and most of the East Bank is under a precautional boil water advisory…
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That’s Kaitlyn Tymrak with the Sewerage and Water Board.
The longer you wait to fill up your gas tank, the more money you’ll end up paying. That’s because gas prices continue to climb amid the fighting in Iran. Don Redman with Triple-A Louisiana says the average price of regular unleaded has soared 55 cents over the last month. ($2.50 a month ago to $3.05, with much of the increase over the past week)
Redman says the jump in gas prices is not because the war is causing a drop in oil production; rather, it’s because it’s cutting off a major shipping lane.
The Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested two women from Texas for allegedly using plastic crows to smuggle drugs and cell phones into the federal prison in Pollock….
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Sheriff Steven McCain says the two women were paid 40-thousand dollars to smuggle the drugs into the prison, but their creativity did not pay off.