Many parishes in northwest Louisiana are under a winter storm warning until 9PM and several northeast Louisiana parishes are under a freezing rain advisory this morning. Marty Mayeaux, with the National Weather Service in Shreveport, advises against traveling in those areas today, if you don’t have to, because there could some significant icing…

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Several roads have been closed including portions of I-49 in Caddo Parish, I-220 in Caddo and Bossier, and several on and off ramps to I-20 in Ouachita Parish.

The city of Pineville is ecstatic over the news that American Specialty Alloys has announced they plan to build a $2.4 billion aluminum mill where the International Paper mill once operated. Pineville Mayor Clarence Fields says the project is expected to create nearly 15-hundred new jobs…

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Fields says the average salary for those direct jobs is $70,000 and operations at the facility are expected to begin late next year.

LSU students believe the governor and state lawmakers should do more to protect higher education from deep budget cuts. Scott Carwile has the story…

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State Police says a Jeanerette man is dead after an early morning single vehicle crash in Iberia Parish. They say 32-year-old Donald Williams, Jr. was traveling on Highway 674 when his vehicle ran off the roadway and struck a mailbox and a ditch embankment. Authorities say Williams was partially ejected from the vehicle. He was transported to a local hospital where he later died. The crash remains under investigation.