Louisiana is looking at a stormy weather today and tomorrow. Emelie Gunn has more on what we can expect…:
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There is a large police presence on the Crescent City Connection in New Orleans where news outlets report cops are trying to determine if the man threatening to jump is the suspect who killed a Westwego cop and woman in Jefferson Parish this morning. The shooter is identified as Sylvester Holt, who allegedly killed 26-year-old Officer Michael Louviere and another person.
In his last days in office, former President Barack Obama approved sentence reductions for 330 federal inmates, 23 of those are from Louisiana. LSU New Orleans Public Health Criminologist Dr. Peter Scharf says these commutations were mostly drug related…:
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He feels the former president needs to go public with an explanation.
Hundreds of thousands of women are expected to gather in the nation’s capital one day after President Trump’s inauguration for the Women’s March on Washington. Alyssa Leader of West Monroe is one of those. She says as an advocate for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, for her, this is personal…:
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The march begins at 10 a.m.