We’ve seen near record high temperatures for this time of year and the National Weather Service says the warm air is bringing in a chance for severe weather this 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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He says the system will clear out to start the work week.

Former Louisiana Tech president Dan Reneau has been named interim president of the University of Louisiana System. Reneau served as president of Louisiana Tech for 26 years. He originally joined the faculty at Tech in 1967 as an assistant professor of chemical engineering…

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Reneau will take on the roll of president until the board finds a permanent replacement for Sandra Woodley, who is resigning as president at the end of the year.

The disposal process of the 16 million pounds of M6 propellant stored at Camp Minden in Webster Parish will begin next year. 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.

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, believes there are a couple of reasons crawfish are so big so early in the season…

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He says if the weather keeps up, it will be a great crawfish season.