For the second straight weekend during the carnival season, gunfire erupted along a parade route. Halen Doughty has the story…:
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New Orleans native Peyton Manning is a Super Bowl champion for a second time as Manning helped the Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers 24-10 in Super Bowl 50. Peyton now has as many Super Bowl rings as his younger brother Eli, but that doesn’t matter in the Manning household…
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Social media is having fun with Eli Manning, Eli didn’t look happy at one point in the game, even though his brother’s team was winning.

Louisiana’s economy is just one out of those in seven states in the nation that did not end 2015 on a strong note, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. LSU Economist Dr. Loren Scott says the big hits Louisiana incurred were in Houma and Lafayette, with employment down three and a half and two and a half percent…:
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He says they hope Saudi Arabia will stop flooding the market so we can start to see upward growth in the oil industry.

It’s cold outside on this Lundi Gras, but the wind is making it extremely brisk. The entire state is under a wind advisory and State Climatologist Barry Keim says a strong breeze of 20-miles per hour will be felt throughout the day. He says when the wind really starts blowing that’s when it will feel really cold…:
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He says parade goers today and tomorrow would be wise to bundle up.