North Korea has announced plans to launch a series of ballistic missiles at Guam, where the United States has a major military presence in the Pacific. Louisiana Congressman Ralph Abraham, serves on the House Armed Forces Committee and says we should be concerned about this threat…
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Abraham says the United States needs to pressure China to impose trade sanctions against North Korea in the hopes that it would reduce the threats made by the Asian country.

A flash flood watch is in effect for northeast Louisiana as numerous showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop throughout the day. Locally higher rainfall accumulations of a few inches is possible. East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Morehouse, Richland, Tensas and West Carroll parishes are in the flash flood watch area.

A website has been developed to help Louisiana parents who have autistic to get information about resources that are available. The website is called L-A-dot-exceptional-lives-dot-org….
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That’s Lauren Jumonville with the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, who says they used a 150-thousand donation to build the website.

Louisiana lottery reports its revenues for last fiscal year were the third highest since they began operations in 1991. They brought in nearly 455-million dollars and 160-million dollars will go to the state treasury for public education….
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That’s lottery spokesperson Dustin Annison who says over half of their revenues ends up as prize money for the players.