One person was killed, another person sent to a burn unit in Baton Rouge after a firey wreck on Interstate 310 in St. Charles Parish between a fuel tanker and a dump truck. The stretch of I-310 near Luling is closed and State Police Trooper Melissa Matey says they will reopen the highway as soon as LSP finishes its investigation…
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The tanker involved in the crash belongs to Gaubert Oil Company in Thibodaux.

Louisiana has selected a contractor that will be in charge of distributing federal funds to flooded homeowners who will use the cash to rebuild from last year’s devastating floods. Julie Baxter Payer, the governor’s deputy chief of staff, says the first dollars will go to low-income and disabled indiduals and they will see the money soon…
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To begin the application process to see if you’re eligible for recovery dollars, fill out a survey at restore.la.gov

The latest installment of the LSU Survey finds 47-percent of residents support religious freedom laws that say businesses have the right to deny services to same sex couples because of religion. Doctor Michael Henderson, director of the LSU Public Policy Research Lab, says the survey also finds 56-percent think transgender people should use the restroom of their birth gender….
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Tangipahoa Sheriff Daniel Edwards says an Abbeville man has confessed to setting fire to a home in Ponchatoula that killed an 89-year-old woman. Edards says Dorothy Poche was a very sweet lady…
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Twenty-six-year-old Timothy Rouchon is facing several charges and a motive is not known.