Governor John Bel Edwards is holding a meeting with his Unified Command Group as Tropical Storm Gordon bears down on the northern Gulf coast. The National Hurricane Center says Gordon will likely make landfall late tonight on the Mississippi coast as a category one hurricane. Danielle Manning is with the National Weather Service in Slidell…
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St. Tammany is among the parishes in southeast Louisiana that could see some impact from Gordon. St. Tammany Parish President Pat Brister says they have been preparing for Gordon for most of the weekend and the public should do its part…
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The official forecast track has Gordon reaching northeast Louisiana as a tropical depression tomorrow.

A contractor accused of ripping off customers across five parishes after the 2016 flood will continue to serve prison time and he’s forced to repay 84-thousand dollars to 11 Livingston Parish victims. 41-year-old Matthew Morris was indicted on 51 counts, but ended up pleading guilty to only one. Legal Analyst Tim Meche says the state got what it needed to out of the case.
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Morris has received a four-year prison sentence and gets credit for time served.