If you are heading to a Lundi Gras parade tonight in Lafayette, Houma or the New Orleans area, make sure you bundle up. State Climatologist Barry Keim says we’ll be impacted all day by chilly temps and strong winds…:
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Keim says the entire state is under a wind advisory today.

For the second time in two weeks there has been a shooting along a Mardi Gras parade route in Louisiana. A week ago, there was a shooting in Thibodaux and last night shots rang out during the Bacchus Parade. Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser says this must stop…:
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No one was injured at last night’s shooting at the Bacchus Parade.

Louisiana’s economy is just one out those in seven states in the nation that did not end 2015 on a strong note, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The index shows our economy contracting during the last three months of the year. Economist Dr. Loren Scott says the impact of the oil cuts are hitting Louisiana really hard…:
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Scott says of the 9 metropolitan areas that we have in the state, only two are growing right now — Baton Rouge and Lake Charles.