Drew Brees heads into tonight’s game against Washington just 201 yards shy of the all-time passing yards record. Brees’ first NFL experience was a 2001 preseason game in Miami, where he says he stared starry-eyed up into the rafters at the passing records held by Dan Marino, who then held the all-time passing yards record. He says he never could have imagined one day that might be him.
State Police has released new details in the officer-involved shooting that killed 23-year-old Coltin LeBlanc of Loranger in downtown Hammond in the early morning hours of September 27th. State Police Lt. Nick Manale says they interviewed witnesses at the scene shortly after the shooting, and are analyzing the officer’s body camera to put together a report on what occurred that night.
Louisiana appears to be out of the path of Hurricane Michael. The storm may have a dangerous impact on the Florida Panhandle with storm surge, heavy rainfall, and hurricane-force winds. As far as an effect on Louisiana, National Weather Service New Orleans Meteorologist Bridgette Lim says Michael is heading north now but anticipates it being pushed off the wall of an oncoming cold front that is moving the storm to the east.
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Governor John Bel Edwards has declared a water emergency in the Concordia Parish town of Clayton after learning that the water systems contractor had quit because of a lack of payment. Mayor Josephine Washington says she’s pitched that the town goes to a three day work week as well as says she’ll take a pay cut.