Lake Charles is preparing to potentially be hit with ten to fifteen feet of storm surge under current models showing Laura making landfall in Cameron Parish, and heading directly north into Calcasieu. Voluntary evacuation orders have been issued in parishes across the region, and National Weather Service Meteorologist Freddie Zeigler says that’s because Laura is a very wide storm…
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Landfall is predicted sometime late Wednesday night at the moment and Governor Edwards says the state is taking the situation very seriously, and moving emergency response assets into position to respond.
Laura is projected to be a strong category two at landfall, but Edwards warns conditions are ripe for it to develop into a major category three hurricane.
Retiring Congressman Ralph Abraham’s former Chief of Staff Luke Letlow is the first candidate in the 5th Congressional District race to hit the TV airwaves with ads. Letlow is reporting a strong 500,000 dollars raised so far in the race. ULM Poli Sci Professor Joshua Stockley says its certainly early for a campaign to start TV ads…
Nine candidates are contending for the vacant seat in the ruby-red district that encompasses large swaths of the northeast and central portions of the state.
A high speed pursuit along LA highway 82 in St. Mary Parish ends in tragedy as two passengers in a fleeing car die in a fatal wreck, and the driver, 39-year-old Joseph James of Franklin is in the hospital. Trooper Thomas Gossen says the fatal outcome may be because none of those in the vehicle were restrained…