A Mississippi lawmaker is facing backlash after saying Louisiana leaders should be lynched for removing four confederate monuments in New Orleans. Halen Doughty has more…
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Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser had a meeting today with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu about the future of the confederate monuments that were removed. Nungesser would like to put the monuments at a historic battlfield, but the mayor said that if the state office of tourism wants them, they’ll have to submit a financial bid.

The southern half of the state is under a flash flood watch as more heavy rain is expected to fall across a region that has already seen a lot of rain. State Climatologist Barry Keim says the National Weather Service is calling for another two to four inches of rainfall…
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Keim says street flooding is also a possibility as well.

Two Lafourche Parish teens were killed in a single vehicle crash in Kraemer early Sunday morning. State Police Trooper Jesse LaGrange says 19-year-old Jaydon Labat (la-bot) was driving down LA 307 at a high rate of speed when he ran off the road and hit a utility pole. He says 18-year-old Candace Reulet (Ru-lay) was also in the vehicle..:
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He says impairment is also a suspected factor in the crash.