If you had uninsured property destroyed by floodwaters this year, you’re entitled to a refund of the state sales tax on those items. Michelle Southern reports…:
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An off-duty New Orleans Police officer has died after he was hit by a car and thrown off a 40 foot overpass on the West Bank Expressway. 45-year-old Officer Tony Mitchell was a 19 year veteran with the department. The fatal crash occurred this morning around 7:30 am when the officer’s car stalled, and he got out of the vehicle. Mitchell leaves behind a wife and two young children.
The flooding has impacted the homes of deputies in East Baton Rouge and Livingston Parishes, with many patrol cars flooded out, and Bossier Parish Sheriff’s deputies are coming south to help. Lt. Dave Faulk with the Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office says they are really hurting for manpower right now…
Faulk says the deputies will patrol areas where there has been looting.
Invest 99 remains poorly organized as it moves toward south Florida, but forecasters are concerned it could possibly develop into a named storm if it reaches the Gulf of Mexico. Alek Krautmann is with the National Weather Service in Slidell.
It’s possible the tropical wave could fall apart.