Louisiana’s been dealing with near record high temperatures in some cases and the National Weather Service says the warm air is bringing in the next big storm system mid-weekend. Emelie Gunn reports…:
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Former Louisiana Tech president Dan Reneau has been named interim president of the University of Louisiana System. Reneau will serve as president until the board finds a permanent replacement for Sandra Woodley, who is resigning as president at the end of the year. Woodley will stay on in an advisory role through March 15th. Reneau served as president of Louisiana Tech for 26 years before retiring in 2013.

Construction of the equipment needed to dispose of 16 million pounds of M6 propellant stored at Camp Minden in Webster Parish continues. The process to dispose of the explosives will begin next year. LSU-Shreveport Chemistry professor Brian Salvatore toured the construction site Thursday. He says about 90-percent of everything needed to conduct the contained burn is on site…:
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He says they expect the disposal to be complete in January of 2017.

Crawfish season is underway and early reports say the mudbugs are much bigger than normal for this time of year. Scott Landry, spokesman for Seafood Palace in Lake Charles they haven’t seen the crawfish this big at this point in the season in several years and it’s due to the warm temperatures. He says they look like an early spring crawfish…:
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He says if the warm weather sticks around then we’re looking at a great crawfish season.