A winter storm warning is in effect for parishes in northwestern Louisiana this morning. Marty Mayeaux, with the National Weather Service in Shreveport, says freezing rain and sleet is expected…

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I-49 in Caddo Parish has been closed due to winter weather conditions, as well as I-220 in Bossier and Caddo Parishes and several on and off ramps to I-20 in Ouachita Parish. A state of emergency has been declared for several parishes.

The Louisiana Cajun food company Savoie’s  is celebrating 60 years in business. Vice President Robert vanLeeuwen says it all started with Eula Savoie who got into the hog farming business shortly before the price of hogs dropped steeply in 1955. He says then she decided to have the hogs slaughtered for sausage…

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He says not many “niche” food products companies reach this age in Louisiana.

A group of LSU students believe the legislature should approve a constitutional amendment that protects higher education from budget cuts. Mass communications student David Scotton has helped gather over one-thousand signatures of LSU students who support the idea for a constitutional amendment to protect higher education…

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Higher ed and health care are not protected and they will likely take the brunt of next fiscal year’s budget cuts.

The Google online video library YouTube is now offering a more age appropriate medium for children. YouTube Kids is a free app and it launches today for Android devices. LSU professor Jenson Moore who specializes in digital media says one of the new features of YouTube Kids is the safe search which limits certain words and will weed out inappropriate words or uncensored content…

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Moore says comments can also be removed which many times contain profanity or inappropriate content.