NOAA researchers say climate change may have contributed to the flooding in south Louisiana. Michelle Southern reports…
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PJ’s Coffee of New Orleans is opening its first international location in Vietnam today. Emelie Gunn has more…
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LSU announces Mike VI will not come out on the field during home football games this season. Ginger Guttner with the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine says Mike underwent radiation treatment in June for a cancerous tumor on his face. She says because of his health, he will stay in his habitat on game days, but fans will still be able to see the live mascot.
Guttner says the treatment appears to have been successful, as the tumor has shrunk, but they are continuing to monitor him. She says he does not appear to be in any pain.
Guttner says without the treatment, Mike might have only lived another month or so, but after the treatment he could live another one or two years. She says vets will evaluate Mike again in the fall to see what the status of the tumor is and decide where to go from there.
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Mandeville Police have made a second arrest in connection with the alleged rape of a 78-year-old resident at the Beau Provence Memory Care facility. Officer Becky White says 55-year-old Julie Henry was the Associate Program Director and knew about the reported sexual assault.
Last week 58-year-old Jerry Kan, a cook at Beau Provence, was arrested for first degree rape of a female resident at the facility. White says Henry had evidence of the incident.
White says Henry has been employed at Beau Provence since last November. She says Henry faces multiple charges, and the investigation is ongoing.
Joe Rapanti, attorney for Beau Provence, released a statement on behalf of the facility saying its management supports Henry. The statement adds, “Once this investigation is finalized, it will be obvious that Julie is innocent.”
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NOAA researchers say the 1,000-year flood that devastated south Louisiana last month may have been intensified by climate change. State climatologist Barry Keim did not participate in this report, but says there are some consistencies between the massive rain event and climate change. He says in a warmer world, the atmosphere would be able to produce bigger storms.
Keim says another variable consistent with climate change is warmer sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico, which helped strengthen the tropical wave that produced the unusual amount of rainfall from August 12th to the 14th.
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A team of experts that comprise of government and university experts published the report that concluded climate change made it possible for a weather event that produced more than 30 inches of rain. But Keim says what happened last month is not enough to tell us anything about climate change.
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PJ’s Coffee of New Orleans is expanding to Vietnam, opening its first shop today at a shopping mall in Ho Chi Minh. Chief Development Officer for Ballard Brands, PJ’s parent company, David Mesa, says this is their first international store. He says they chose to open in Vietnam because it is a very coffee rich country…
Mesa says they are planning to expand PJ’s Coffee even more over the next five years.
Mesa says PJ’s Coffee currently has 85 shops in seven states throughout the U.S. He says they are on the heels of launching a coffee house in Malaysia and are excited to give other countries the chance to taste Louisiana coffee.
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