Governor John Bel Edwards has asked the Louisiana Public Service Commission to see if the state’s utility customers should see lower rates as a result of the recently approved federal tax overhaul legislation. P-S-C member Foster Campbell says Edwards is right and that will be a focus of their first meetings of 2018…
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Edwards says Dominion Energy in South Carolina has already announced plans to lower its rates, because of the new federal tax law.

A key member of LSU’s defense has declared for the NFL draft. Arden Key told fans on social media that he’ll skip his senior season. Tiger Rag Associate Editor James Moran says Key left the team during spring football to deal with a personal matter and also missed five games during his junior campaign, because of injuries…
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Still waiting to hear if running back Derius Guice will enter the NFL draft. He has until January 15th to decide.

A mobile home fire in East Baton Rouge Parish has killed three people, a mother and her two young daughters. Zachary Fire Chief Danny Kimble says it looks like the family didn’t receive a warning to get out…
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An exact cause of the fire has not been determined, but the state has seen an uptick in fires because of the cold weather. State Fire Marshal Butch Browning says four of the recent fire deaths have been attributed to use of space heaters.

We’ll see temperatures drop below freezing again tonight and into tomorrow morning. But State Climatolgist Barry Keim says a warm up will begin this weekend….
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Keim says tomorrow will mark the sixth straight morning below freezing, we’ve only seen that happen nine times since 1930.