The Baton Rouge Police Department has identified a suspect in the shooting death of a West St. John High School football coach over the weekend. They say 25-year-old Kendric Cloud of Baker is wanted in connection with the murder of 27-year-old Juan Joseph. BRPD says the victim was killed outside of a nightclub early Sunday morning. Anyone with information on Cloud’s whereabouts is urged to contact authorities.

Falling oil prices are having a negative impact on the state’s oil and gas industry:
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Ouachita Parish will not be declared a federal disaster area after tornadoes ripped through the area last month. Without the declaration, public agencies in the parish will not receive federal reimbursement for costs associated with storm damage expenses. Neal Brown is the Director of the Ouachita Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness…:
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FEMA calculated that the tornadoes did $4 million in damage and $6.3 million in damage is required to be declared a federal disaster.

The Sabine Parish Sheriff’s office says a man from Zwolle is behind bars on murder charges for allegedly stabbing his step-father seven times. They say 27-year-old Dustin Rivers claimed 51-year-old Howard Ferguson hit him first in the head with an aluminum bat during a fight. Rivers is being held on $25,000 bond after his Sunday night arrest for second-degree murder.