7:30 PM LRN Newscast Oct 28

Officials say a person has been taken to a hospital with minor injuries after an apartment collapsed in New Orleans as Hurricane Zeta pummeled the city. Mayor LaToya Cantrell told WDSU-TV that the person sustained minor injuries after a building collapsed at Washington Garden Apartments. Zeta is forecast to continue to move from southeastern Louisiana into Mississippi during the next hour or two, and then move across the southeastern and eastern United States later tonight and tomorrow. Maximum sustained winds have decreased to 100 miles per hour

Entergy reports 367-thousand are without power.

Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser is hunkering down during Hurricane Zeta in Plaquemines Parish, where he’s concerned about flooding as construction continues on a federal levee system…

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The head of State Police, Colonel Kevin Reeves, has announced he will retire at the end of the week. There’s an ongoing investigation into the death of a black man while in State police custody. But Governor Edwards says he knew of Reeves’ retirement plans since last year…

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The family of Tommie McGlothen Jr., a mentally ill man who died after being in Shreveport Police custody, is seeking a 25-million-dollar wrongful death settlement from the City of Shreveport. Video shows officers beating McGlothen and the coroner’s report says he was then left unattended in a police cruiser for 48 minutes and later died. Family attorney James Carter…

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Carter says the City has until Thursday to respond or the family will file a lawsuit seeking those damages.