The temperatures for this time of year have been unusually high and the National Weather Service says the warm air is bringing in a chance for severe weather mid-weekend. Jason Hansford with the National Weather Service in Shreveport says there’s a large disturbance moving across the southern plains on Sunday, which has opened up the Gulf of Mexico bringing these warm and humid conditions…:
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Hansford says the system will clear out to start the work week.

The disposal process of the 16 million pounds of M6 propellant stored at Camp Minden in Webster Parish will begin in January. LSU-Shreveport Chemistry professor Brian Salvatore toured the construction site and says now they are waiting on the biggest contained burn chamber in the world. He says it will travel to Louisiana through the river system and be unloaded at the port of Nachitoches…:
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He says they expect the disposal to be complete in January of 2017.

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. Reneau served as president of Louisiana Tech for 26 years before retiring in 2013…:
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Woodley will stay on in an advisory role through March 15th.

Authorities say an elderly woman from Iberville Parish died this morning after the truck she was driving went into a bayou in Grosse Tete. They say 78-year-old Geneva Jenkins was removed from the submerged vehicle and taken to the hospital where she died. The cause of the crash is still being investigated.

Governor-elect John Bel Edwards officially resigned from the Louisiana House today. Edwards says it was an honor to serve District 72 in Amite but now it’s time to focus on the transition to governor. He’ll be sworn in January 11th.