After receiving 438-million dollars in federal flood recovery dollars from Congress, US Representative Garret Graves of Baton Rouge told a flood recovery task force that they’ll seek more aid in December. Graves says the Comite River Diversion Project and other flood mitigation plans will be at the top of their funding request…
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The governor’s chief disaster recovery adviser says the first round of money will likely go to low to moderate income homeowners who don’t have the resources to rebuild.

Senate candidate Troy Hebert has lost his legal challenge as he tried to get a state district judge to order Louisiana Public Broadcasting and the Council for a Better Louisiana to include more than five candidates in next week’s US Senate debate. Also, former US Senator Mary Landrieu has endorsed Democrat Caroline Fayard in the Senate race.

Following an explosion at Camp Minden in September, a plan has put into place to dispose over 200-thousand pounds of explosives that contain an unstable chemical compound…
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A 20-year-old Baton Rouge man has been charged with negligent homicide in the shooting death of his mother. Sgt. L’Jean McKneely says the 37-year-old mother and her son were involved in a physical argument…
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McKneely says the shooter, Dexter Clay Junior, has been cooperative with detectives.