State lawmakers grilled a FEMA administrator today in the House Homeland Security Committee meeting, asking why it’s taking so long to get assistance to flood victims. FEMA Coordinating Officer Gerard Stolar says there are 23-hundred FEMA personnel working on this disaster…:
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Stolar says $289 million has been dispersed to flood victims. He says 2-thousand flood survivors are still in hotels, and less than 1-thousand are in shelters. Gonzales Representative Clay Schexnayder…:
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Schexnayder says he doesn’t care how it happens, but the process needs to be expedited.

The state Department of Health is partnering with FEMA to offer free counseling to children and youth struggling with depression and anxiety after the recent floods. They can call the Spirit Crisis Line at 866-310-7977.

Today the Public Service Commission is hearing Entergy’s plan to build a new $869-million natural gas powered plant in St. Charles parish. Halen Doughty has more…:
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The family of the deputy who was critically injured in an ambush on Baton Rouge Police officers say that Nick Tullier is responding to doctors commands. Tullier’s father James told WBRZ that the deputy was moving his toes and thumb when requested by the doctors. Deputy Tullier was shot in an ambush that killed three other officers in July.