Construction of the equipment needed to dispose of 16 million pounds of M6 propellant stored at Camp Minden in Webster Parish continues. LSU-Shreveport Chemistry professor Brian Salvatore says about 90-percent of what’s needed to conduct the contained burn is on site. Salvatore says the assembly of the contained burn chamber will be finished in January with test burns starting in February…

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He says they expect the disposal to be complete in January of 2017.

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. Jason Hansford with the National Weather Service in Shreveport says it’s hard to believe we’re in December when you look at the forecast these days…

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Hansford says there is a marginal risk for severe weather moving across the state starting Saturday evening in some areas then into Sunday.

Crawfish season is underway and reports say the mudbugs are a lot bigger than normal for this time of year. Scott Landry, spokesman for Seafood Palace in Lake Charles, says if the warm weather keeps up, it will be a great crawfish season. He expects business to be great this season because everyone loves a bigger sized crawfish…

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Landry says so far, the crawfish are larger than they’ve been in several years.

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 was president at Tech for 26 years before retiring in 2013…

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Woodley will stay on in an advisory role through March 15th.