Bobby Jindal will end his two terms as governor when John Bel Edwards is sworn into office on Monday. Jeff Palermo has more on Jindal’s eight years in office…

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Due of recent changes in river forecasts, the US Army Corps of Engineers has announced the timeline for opening the Bonnet Carre and Morganza Spillways has changed. The opening of the Bonnet Carre will now begin at 10AM Sunday. They also say the floodgates of the Morganza Spillway will open no sooner than Tuesday. The spillways are being opened to alleviate flood threats due to rising water levels on the Mississippi River.

The red snapper fishing season opens today and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has extended the limit from three to nine miles offshore for recreational fishing. Assistant Secretary Randy Pausina says Texas and Florida have always had nine nautical miles and they worked hard to get the same boundary here…

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Pausina says it’s also unique to open the season in January.

A new Louisiana law aims to cracks down on marriage fraud, especially in cases where illegal immigrants attempt to fraudulently gain US citizenship. Bill sponsor, Denham Springs State Representative Valarie Hodges, says this measure not only protects the reliability of information on marriage licenses, it also tackles a bigger issue…

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She says the law will protect the institution of marriage.