Registration for the Louisiana Shelter at Home Program is now open. The Governor’s Deputy Chief of Staff Julie Baxter Payer says the program awards up to $15-thousand for basic home repairs…:
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The registration form is online at shelterathome.la.gov.

Hurricane Katrina happened 11 years ago today, and could we see a similar shift in population now like we did then? Emelie Gunn has more…:

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Flood weary residents have been nervously watching the tropics as a system enters the Gulf of Mexico, but the latest models show TD 9 heading to Florida and making landfall there Thursday. The National Hurricane Center expects the system to get stronger and become a tropical storm later today.

Two people are dead and 36 injured after a party bus hit a fire truck and several other vehicles on I-10 near LaPlace in St. John the Baptist Parish. State Police Trooper Melissa Matey says the driver of the bus was in the US illegally and did not have a driver’s license. She says one of the fatal victims was District Chief Spencer Chauvin with the St. John the Baptist Fire Department…:
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She says the wreck also killed 21 year old Jermaine Starr who was a back seat passenger in one of the vehicles that was hit. Denis Yasmir Amaya Rodriguez of Honduras is charged with two counts of negligent homicide and one each of reckless driving and driving without a license.