A 48-year-old grandmother and three children ranging from seven years old to four-months-old were killed in a house fire in Alexandria late Saturday night. Alexandria Fire Department Chief Larry King says there were no working smoke detectors in the home…
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King says the fire started in the living-diving room area of the home. A cause has yet to be determined.

Governor Edwards speaks today at the Baton Rouge Press Club, one week ahead of the start of the 2020 regular session. Efforts to reduce auto insurance rates through tort reform will be a big topic. Edwards helped to defeat this approach last year, but political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says the governor will have little choice but to try and reach a compromise this year…
cut 8 (07) “…veto it’

Two pit bulls have been removed from a Shreveport home where a deadly attack occurred on 64-year-old Geraldine Hamlin. She died from her injuries on Friday morning. Shreveport Police Corporal Angie Willhite says it’s unclear what provoked the attack…
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Willhite says the woman shared a home with her son and the dogs lived with the family for four years.

LSU Manship School of Mass Communication professor Len Apcar relaunches a website that aims to help spot fake news. The website, detect-fake-news.com, is a guide on the latest developments in fake news. Apcar says the website has tips on how to fact check, with do-it-yourself tools and information.
Cut 10 (08) “…facts and sourcing.”
Apcar says fake news is only a small percentage of the overall amount of information out there.