Tropical Storm Gordon is eyeing a Mississippi coast landfall, while much of Louisiana could only see minimal effects. Jeff Palermo 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. Matt Doyle has more.
Brister says forecasters say Mississippi will get the brunt of Gordon, but St. Tammany could experience tropical storm force winds, heavy downpours and minor coastal flooding…
Brister says St. Tammany government has been preparing for Gordon for most of the weekend and the public should do its part…
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Tropical Storm Gordon looks more like a problem for Mississippi and Alabama, 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
Gordon has maximum sustained winds at 65 miles per hour and its moving northwest at 15 miles per hour. Manning says Gordon is expected to reach hurricane strength before landfall…
Manning says Gordon is expected to move through Mississippi tomorrow and enter northeast Louisiana as a tropical depression by night fall
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Governor John Bel Edwards is asking residents in southeast Louisiana not to take Tropical Storm Gordon lightly, even though forecast models predict a landfall in Mississippi later tonight. Edwards says there is still a chance for some nasty weather in the Bayou State…
Edwards says Gordon could also deliver some bad weather to northeast Louisiana tomorrow as that region of the state is under a flash flood watch….
200 Louisiana National Guardsmen have been activated in southeast Louisiana. General Glenn Curtis says they are ready to assist if water rescues are necessary…
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A contractor accused of ripping off customers across five parishes after the 2016 flood receives a four-year prison sentence and is 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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Authorities say Morris would sign contracts with victims of the 2016 flood, and then either not finish, or never even begin work. After the clients would cease payments, Morris would place leans on their properties.
While the four-year sentence may seem light for a heinous crime, Meche says if he’s in jail for the rest of his life, he can’t complete the restitution.
Morris is still facing charges in Ascension, East Baton Rouge, St. John the Baptist, and Terrebonne Parishes, But Meche says there’s a likely reason why the first cases were tried in Livingston.