Tropical Storm Gordon looks more like a problem for Mississippi and Alabama than Louisiana as the storm is expected to make landfall late tonight on the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a category 1 hurricane. Danielle Manning, with the National Weather Service in Slidell, says Gordon’s impact to Louisiana might be minimal…
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St. Tammany Parish President Pat Brister has been in contact with weather officials and what the storm’s impact may have on them….
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The state has activated 200 Louisiana National Guardsmen in case the storm produces flooding in the Bayou State.

Gordon expects to keep moving northwest once it makes landfall and it will be a tropical depression in northeast Louisiana tomorrow afternoon. A flash flood watch is in effect tomorrow for that part of the state.

STDs are on the rise in a big way across the country. Matt Doyle has the story.
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A contractor indicted on 51 criminal counts in Livingston Parish for defrauding his customers following the 2016 flood has plead guilty and will serve four years in prison, with credit for time served. District Attorney Scott Perrilloux also says 41-year-old Matthew Morris will pay some amount of restitution to the 11 victims in Livingston Parish.