A state lawmaker has passed away. Baton Rouge Senator Larry Selders collapsed and died while attending his son’s football practice last night. The 44-year-old Democrat served in the state legislature since 2020, starting in the House and moving over to the state senate in 2025 to replace Cleo Fields Baton Rouge Senator Regina Barrow says Selders’ was a social worker when not representing his district……

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The Colorado State hurricane forecast team is now predicting a well below normal season with nine named storms.  Senior Research Scientist Phil Klotzbach says in April they were predicting 13 named storms, in June they dropped that total to eleven and now they believe this year will produce nine named storms and that includes Tropical Storm Arthur…

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Klotzbach says they have more confidence an El Nino will reduce storm activity.

Federal assistance is now available to homeowners and renters in four parishes who suffered damage from Tropical Storm Arthur. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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Here’s a story that you might only hear about in Louisiana. LDWF has cited a Eunice woman for illegally selling turtles in St. Landry Parish. Thirty-two-year-old Sydney Broussard was allegedly selling red eared slider turtles for eight dollars a piece and an alligator snapping turtle for 30-dollars. She faces up to a 350-dollar fine.

Baton Rouge State Senator Larry Selders passed away at the age of 44 from a suspected heart attack.

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Authorities have made an arrest in connection with an officer-involved shooting that happened yesterday morning DeSoto Parish. Twenty-year-old Jay Xaiver Wilson has been charged with being an in-state fugitive and resisting an officer. Very few details have been released about the shooting other than it happened on U-S Highway 171 near U-S Highway 84 in Mansfield.

Colorado State University is once again lowering its hurricane forecast for 2026. Senior Research Scientist Phil Klotzbach says the forecast now calls for nine named storms, including Arthur, four hurricanes, with one of them being a major hurricane.

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Klotzbach say an El Nino will decrease storm activity.

Residents in Avoyelles, St. Landry, St. Tammany and Terrebonne Parishes are eligible for federal assistance if their homes were damaged as a result of Tropical Storm Arthur. Flooding is the main culprit for the damage. FEMA spokesperson Nate Custer says you may be eligible for federal assistance if either your flood insurance policy does not cover all of your damage or you don’t have a flood policy at all.

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To apply, either download the FEMA app, go to disaster assistance-dot-gov, or call the FEMA helpline at 800-621-FEMA.

Elected officials and the city of Baton Rouge is mourning the death of state senator Larry Selders, who passed away unexpectedly at the age of 44 years-old. The Baton Rouge Democrat has served in the state legislature since 2020, starting in the House in 2020 and then moving over to the state senate in 2025 to replace Cleo Fields, who was elected to Congress. Baton Rouge Senator Regina Barrow says Selders’ professional job was as a social worker…

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The Colorado State hurricane forecast team has lowered its forecast again, now calling for a nine named storms, four hurricanes and one major hurricane. C-S-U researcher Phil Klotzbach says the main driver for the well-below normal hurricane forecast is a strong El Nino that’s expected during the peak of the hurricane season…

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Federal assistance is now available to homeowners and renters in four parishes who suffered damage from Tropical Storm Arthur. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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Governor Jeff Landry has posted on social media the recommendations he’s made to President Trump regarding the United States’ future relationship with Greenland. Landry is the president’s special envoy to Greenland and visited the Arctic Island earlier this year. Landry says there needs to be direct shipping routes between the U-S and Greenland. Also, the U-S should expand its diplomatic presence in Greenland.

Last week, we heard from the Republican nominee in the U-S Senate race, Julia Letlow. Letlow is the prohibitive favorite in the election that will take place November third. But her Democratic opponent, Jamie Davis, rejects the notion the race has been decided…

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The Trump Administration has worked out a deal with England Airpark in Alexanderia to transform an unused military barrack into a 528-bed holding facility for migrants and unaccompanied children who are self-deporting.  Executive director of the England Airpark Authority, Ralph Hennessy, says the people will only be there a few days before a chartered flight takes them back home and in return the airpark receives money to operate…

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New data shows Louisiana leads the nation in workforce participation growth. Kace Kieschnick has more.

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Governor Jeff Landry has posted on social media the recommendations he’s made to President Trump regarding the United States’ future relationship with Greenland. Landry is the president’s special envoy to Greenland and visited the Arctic Island earlier this year. Landry says there needs to be direct shipping routes between the U-S and Greenland. Also, the U-S should expand its diplomatic presence in Greenland.

According to the latest labor market report, Louisiana tied for the nation’s largest increase in labor force participation. Louisiana Works Secretary Susie Schowen says nearly 33-thousand additional Louisianans entered the labor force, meaning they are either employed or actively seeking work…

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Schowen believes the state is doing a better job connecting people with education, training and employment opportunities.

We are little less than four months away from election day. Tensas Parish farmer and Democrat Jamie Davis is a big underdog to Republican Congresswoman Julia Letlow in the US Senate race. Davis says he wants his campaign to resonate with all Louisianans…

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A 528-bed holding facility for migrant families and unaccompanied children is going up at England Airpark in Alexandria. Jeff Palermo has the details.

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The rapper known as Mysitkal is now serving his 20-year prison sentence at Angola. He pleaded guilty in March to raping a woman at his Prairieville home in 2022 and was sentenced last month. His given name is Michael Lawrence Tyler and TMZ reports Tyler has a cell to himself because of his celebrity status.

Sad news to report this morning as state senator Larry Selders has passed away at the age of 44. The Advocate reports the Democrat from Baton Rouge died suddenly last night at his son’s football practice. Selders spent time in the hospital last May because of heart troubles. Governor Jeff Landry called Selders a gentle giant who was respected by everyone.

New data shows Louisiana leads the nation in workforce participation growth. Kace Kieschnick has more.

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When it comes to the burden of car ownership, nowhere do drivers have it worse than here in Louisiana. Rob Bhatt (“bot”), an insurance analyst with LendingTree, says Louisiana drivers spend on average 6.1-percent of their gross income on auto insurance – the highest rate in the nation.

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The LendingTree study found that the average Louisiana driver spends 327 dollars a month on auto insurance,

Last week, we heard from the Republican nominee in the U-S Senate race, Julia Letlow. Letlow is the prohibitive favorite in the election that will take place November third. But her Democratic opponent, Jamie Davis, rejects the notion the race has been decided…

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A 528-bed facility that will temporarily house migrant families and unaccompanied children before they are deported to their native country is going up at the England Airpark in Alexandria. Executive director of the England Airpark Authority, Ralph Hennessy says he’s been told by the Trump Administration that migrants will only be there a few days before they are deported.

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Several immigration advocates believe the children will be at this facility for a much longer time.

Last week, we heard from Julia Letlow after she officially became the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. Today, we’re hearing from her Democratic opponent. Jamie Davis notes that in both the primary and the runoff, nearly as many Democrats voted for him as the number of Republicans who voted for Letlow – despite Letlow spending way more money

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The election is on November third.

Louisiana’s workforce participation growth tied for the most in the nation with 58.8-percent of the working-age population in the labor force. That’s nearly a one-percent increase from last year, accounting for almost 33-thousand new workers. Louisiana Works Secretary Susie Schowen (SHAU-in) says workforce participation is a key economic indicator.

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The national labor force participation rate declined by six tenths of a percent. Louisiana was one of five states to see an increase.

A new study from Lending Tree finds that Louisiana drivers spend six percent of their gross income on auto insurance. That’s the highest percentage in the nation. Rob Bhatt an insurance analyst with LendingTree says nationally, drivers spend less than three percent of their gross income on auto insurance. Bhatt says the high auto insurance rates in Louisiana are felt even more, because this state has a lot of drivers who don’t make a lot of money…

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