While the state has caught a break with tropical storm Marco weakening, we aren’t out of the woods yet with Laura. National Weather Service Meteorologist Freddie Zeigler says they also expect Laura to be a big storm, which means a large portion of the region could be impacted…
A police pursuit on LA Highway 82 in St. Mary Parish ends in a fatal crash, leaving two people dead. A Patterson Police officer attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a vehicle driven by 39-year-old Joseph James of Franklin, but Trooper Thomas Gossen says the driver fled, reaching speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour.
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46-year-old Warren Joe Hines and 17-year-old Markqel James… were both pronounced dead at the scene.
Retiring Congressman Ralph Abraham’s former Chief of Staff Luke Letlow is the first candidate in the 5th Congressional District race to take the airwaves with TV ads. Letlows two major Republican opponents are state lawmaker Lance Harris and Police Juror Scotty Robinson. ULM Poli Sci Professor Joshua Stockley says Letlow is flexing his frontrunner status.
The state health department reports 662 new COVID-19 cases for the day and 18 new fatalities, Here’s a look at today’s’ commodities prices.
And The AP preseason college football poll ranks the LSU Tigers in 6th place.