The Attorney General’s Office has started the hashtag campaign “Make New Orleans Safe Again” to reduce crime in the Crescent City after shootings increased by 25-percent last year. AG Jeff Landry blames Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s poor leadership for the uptick in crime. He says NOPD is under a federal consent decree that the mayor agreed to.

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Landry says with the help of NOPD, his Violent Crime Task Force made 16 total arrests in the last quarter of 2016. The mayor’s office did not respond to a request for a statement.

LSU police are investigating damage to the turf at Tiger Stadium. University Police say vandals broke into the stadium around 11:30 pm Tuesday and were inside until after midnight. LSU sports information director Michael Bonnette says the damage wasn’t major and it can be fixed.

The state has released its revised coastal restoration plan. Brann Haase with the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority says the worst case scenario for the coast would be about 4-thousand square miles of land loss, if they did nothing.

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Haase says public meetings will be held around the state to gather input on the plan of action. The first meeting is scheduled for January 17 in Lake Charles.

A weather system is moving through the state today, bringing with it the possibility for winter precipitation north of I-20. State climatologist Barry Keim says the system should move through quickly, but once it passes, arctic air pushes in.

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Keim says there’s about a 20-percent chance of snow in north Louisiana.