The sister of the New Orleans man who was in the nightclub that was the target of a massive deadly shooting in Orlando said on her Facebook page her brother is still alive. As of Sunday night the family hadn’t heard from 39-year-old Leonel Melendez, but Lauri Melendez says they learned he’s in a coma. Governor John Bel Edwards ordered flags at half-staff for the victims and families in the worst mass shooing in US history.

The massive sinkhole that formed about four years ago in Bayou Corne continues to show reduced activity and is close to becoming totally stable. Assumption Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness Director John Boudreaux says the hole is showing only slight growth right now. He says the deepest part has reached 174 feet and its filling up with soil from the sides…:
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He says experts believe the sinkhole won’t completely stop growing anytime soon, but the process will keep going slower.

The charges have been dropped against a man accused in the murder of a 21-year-old woman in Desoto Parish. Sheriff Rodney Arbuckle says autopsy findings could not determine how Maranda Whitton died, so they had to release the suspect, 33-year-old Jarrod Earl Johnson of Logansport…:
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He says they are still actively investigating this incident.

Members of the LGBT community in Louisiana are devastated about the targeted attack on a gay club in Orlando that claimed the lives of at least 50 and injured 53 more. Forum for Equality executive director Sara Jane Brady says the risk of things like this happening grows when political leaders try to marginalize the LGBT community…:
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A woman from Carencro posted on Facebook that her brother, 27-year-old Frank Hernandez, was one of the victims who didn’t make it.