Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of Hurricane Camille’s devastating landfall along the Mississippi coast in 1969. Before Hurricane Katrina, Camille was the Gulf Coast’s defining storm. State Climatologist Barry Keim says Camile certainly had Katrina beat in terms of hurricane-force winds
Camile formed in the Caribbean just south of Cuba before heading to the north-central Gulf Coast.
Cops are stepping up patrols to get impaired drivers off the road with the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” national law enforcement campaign. Louisiana Highway Safety Commission Executive Director Lisa Freeman says there is no excuse for getting behind the wheel if you’ve had anything that could impair your driving.
Uber is now offered statewide.
The President’s decision to delay implementing a new 10 percent tariff on a range of items from China likely spares Krewe members increased prices on beads. The tariffs were set to take effect on September 15th, but that sparked fears Christmas shoppers could have sticker shock. December 15th is the new date, and Beads by the Dozen president Dan Kelly says…
Kelly says a ten percent tariff would have translated to about a seven percent increase on retail prices.
The Ruston High Bearcats are getting a new logo after Rutgers University asked the school to change it. Both use an identical block R, but Rutgers holds the trademark. Principal Dan Gressett says it’s not a big deal.
Gressett says the high school and the university has a memorandum of understanding over the logo’s use