The Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating its first ever quadruple homicide. Jeff Palermo has the tragic details out of Houma…

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Election Day is now just 50 days away.  The two biggest races are in districts five and six, which are the two open seats. ULM Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says while four prominent Republicans are battling it out, there’s only one prominent Democrat – Pat Moore – on the ballot.

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A documentary on legendary LSU Heisman winner Billy Cannon premieres tonight,on Louisiana Public Broadcasting.  Cannon won the 1959 Heisman at LSU and spent 11 years in the pros and is revered as an LSU legend.  His daughter Bunnie Cannon…

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“Circles: The Life of Billy Cannon” premieres tonight at 7 on LPB.

The Saints lost their season opener 31-30 versus the Lions in Overtime. Coming back from a 21-nothing deficit in the first half, the black and gold had five straight scoring drives to force an overtime where they came up just short.  Wide receiver Chris Olave had a career-high 182 yards on 10 catches, but he says he didn’t get the most important stat.

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Election Day is just 50 days away. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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All Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles customer service centers will be closed today to accommodate staff training and ongoing system modernization efforts. The closure affects both state-run offices and third-party partners. Normal operations are expected to resume tomorrow.

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A horrific scene for Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s investigators over the weekend after they say 47-year-old Kaegan Solet fatally stabbed four people. Lt. Blake Tabor says a juvenile who was wounded managed to make it to a neighbor’s and was flown to a hospital, listed as critical, but stble.   Tabor says they are not discussing a possible motive with the public.

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LSU turned it over four times in the first half against Louisiana Tech, but eventually pulled away from the Bulldogs for a 45-14 win. Tigers quarterback Sam Leavitt threw for 344 yards and a touchdown, and rushed for three touchdowns. But he also threw three interceptions, which he knows can’t happen this Saturday at Ole Miss..…

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Election Day is just 50 days away. Thanks to last-minute redistricting, the U.S. House races on the November 3rd ballot are all open primaries. ULM Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says even though all candidates from all parties will be on the same ballot, he does not expect many partisan voters to cross party lines.

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A horrific scene at a residence in Houma as Terrebonne Parish Sheriff investigators say a 47-year-old man fatally stabbed four people and badly wounded a juvenile. Lt. Blake Tabor says the juvenile who survived the attack from Kaegan Solet went to a neighbor’s house seeking help. Tabor says Solet was arrested Sunday morning…

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This remains an active and ongoing investigation.

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A documentary on the life of LSU legend Billy Cannon premieres on LPB tonight at 7:00. Kace Kieschnick has more.

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The Saints lost their season opener 31-30 to the Lions in overtime, but wow what  a fight they put up after a scoreless first half.  The Saints delivered five straight scoring drives in the second half, but came up just short of the win in overtime.  Quarterback Tyler Shough on being aggressive.

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Today marks 25 years since the September 11^th terrorist attacks. Nearly 3,000 people died and thousands more were injured that day as terrorists carried out coordinated attacks on the World Trade Center in New York city and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Trey Williams who works for the Secretary of State’s Office now, was working at DHH near the Pentagon that day.  He says what he saw on his walk from work after being told to evacuate will stick with him forever, and not just the bad ones.

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In the 25 years since the 9/11 attacks, anti-terrorism intelligence at all levels – federal, state and local – has become a lot more sophisticated. Mark Fontenot, the intelligence coordination center manager at GOHSEP, says everything is a lot more advanced now.

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Investigators are searching for the remains of two missing south Louisiana women that could be buried in West Feliciana Parish on the property of 43-year-old Thomas Morris. Jeff Palermo has the story.

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It was arguably the darkest day in American history, and it happened 25 years ago today. 2,977 people were killed when terrorists hijacked four planes; two of them were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, one was flown into the Pentagon, and the other crashed in a remote field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers who got word of the other three hijackings overpowered the terrorists.

Trey Williams is the spokesman for Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry; but on September 11th, 2001, Williams was working at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC. He was in his office building as American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon nearby and while United Airlines Flight 93 was still in the air.

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There will be remembrances at all of the crash sites today to remember the lives that were lost.

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There’s been a major break in the case of two missing south Louisiana women. West Feliciana Parish Sheriff Brian Spillman says his deputies along with other agencies have begun searching a rural residential piece of property that belongs to 43-year-old Thomas Morris, who was arrested in July on an unrelated kidnapping case.

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A Missouri-based company is planning on putting up a data center in a community about eight miles north of Lake Charles, and the people who live there aren’t happy about it. Representative Brett Geymann (GUY-min), whose district includes Moss Bluff, says that’s because Moss Bluff was planned strictly as a residential community.

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We have reached out to the president of Azimuth Renewals, which signed an option back in April to buy about 12-hundred the land where the proposed data center would go. So far, we have not heard back.

On this, the 25th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in this nation’s history, we hear from one man who was in Washington, DC, on that terrible day. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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All four living former presidents will all be attending today’s observance in New York city.  President Donald Trump will be leading the observance and delivering remarks at the Pentagon in Virginia.
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A Missouri-based company is planning on putting up a data center in a community about eight miles north of Lake Charles, and the people who live there are not happy about it. Representative Brett Geymann (GUY-min), whose district includes Moss Bluff, says the people live there for a specific reason.

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Representative Geymann says Moss Bluff was planned strictly as a residential community. Geymann says the people of Moss Bluff want to keep it that way.

Black Bayou Energy Hun, LLC has announced a 1.6 billion investment to expand its Lafayette headquarters and develop critical natural gas infrastructure in Cameron Parish.  The move is expected to create 23 direct new jobs at the company’s two sites.  State officials have estimated the project will also mean 35 indirect new jobs and 1000 construction jobs at its peak.

A federal court in Alabama will hold a hearing this afternoon in the SEC’s lawsuit filed to stop LSU from adding players who were on NFL rosters during training camp. Attorney General Liz Murrill, who’s also named as a defendant in the case, says the NCAA’s exclusion of class of 2022 athletes in its five-year eligibility model was unfair, and that is why judges are siding with former college athletes.

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Meanwhile the two spots LSU had left open on its roster for the players in question Dae’Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris, have now been filled.  LSU announced last night  that Aidan Anding and Gabriel Reliford have were added, finalizing the roster. Anding and Reliford are injured and not expected to play this season.

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It appears forecasters were spot on in predicting a below average hurricane season. Kace Kieschnick reports.

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While Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says Louisiana’s still in an insurance crisis, there are some positive signs…as many companies have lowered premiums for Louisiana customers, which is why he is urging policyholders to shop around when it’s time to renew.

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Louisiana drivers are paying 400-million dollars less for private passenger auto insurance. Here’s Jeff Palermo.

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The two spots on LSU’s roster that had been left open for Dae’Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris have now been filled. With the threat of expulsion from the SEC, LSU added Aidan Anding and Gabriel Reliford instead, which finalizes the team’s roster. LSU is still set to appear in an Alabama Federal courtroom at one this afternoon over the SEC lawsuit.
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Opioid deaths are down 59 percent in Louisiana since 2022.  That’s compared to a nationwide decline of 46 percent.  Louisiana Deputy Health Secretary Dr. Pete Croughan (CROW-ghin)…

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When forecasters said this hurricane season would be quieter than normal, they weren’t kidding! LSU Health Secretary Barry Keim says we’re coming up on the middle of September, and we haven’t had one Atlantic hurricane yet – only tropical storms.

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Louisiana is making great strides in getting the upper hand on opioid-related deaths. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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Louisiana’s insurance crisis continues as premiums are unaffordable for many.  That’s according to Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple. But Temple says there is some positive news.  Thanks to changes in state law, he says premiums are down for many.

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A federal court in Alabama will hold a hearing this afternoon in the SEC’s lawsuit that attempts to stop LSU from adding players who were on NFL rosters during training camp. The SEC amended the lawsuit to name Attorney General Liz Murrill as a defendant. Murrill says the SEC is suing LSU for violating its First Amendment rights, but it was the athletes, not LSU, that filed the lawsuit against the NCAA and SEC.

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Late yesterday, LSU filled the final two spots on its team roster with two players who don’t have any ties to the NFL.

When forecasters said this hurricane season would be quieter than normal, they weren’t kidding! LSU Health Secretary Barry Keim …

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The group Louisiana Progress is urging Hyundai Steel to live up to its promise to use electricity to manufacture its steel instead of burning coal at construction of its 5.8 billion dollar mill gets set to begin.  Angelle Bradford with Louisiana Progress says they’re also looking for assurances that locals will get first dibs on the thousands of new jobs the project will bring to Ascension Parish.

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The Acadiana region will see an hundreds of new jobs, thanks to a 25.5 million dollar expansion of Coastal Machine and Supply. CEO Kody Guidry says the first phase of that expansion should be completed next summer, and then…

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WWL Radio on-air sports personality and NFL draft expert Mike Detillier has passed away after a brief bout with cancer. Jeff Palermo has reaction to the devastating news.

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It’s 9-8-8 Day in Louisiana.  That’s the number you can call or text 24 hours a day to receive free, confidential counseling for any problem, big or small. VIA Link social worker Sherrard Crespo says 988 gets more than five-thousand calls a month, but lately haven’t seen as many high risk calls.

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