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An unidentified assailant riding a pedicab ambushed two police officers in New Orleans, opening fire into their police vehicle on Friday night. The shooter hit one cop in the face and the shards of glass from the bullet wounded the other officer. Police Superintendent Shaun Ferugson announced that the assailant opened fire at around 4:30 p.m. in the city’s French Quarter. The suspect hit one officer in the cheek and the bullet lodged in his skull, Fox News reported. “They were just crossing through intersections going in different directions,” Ferguson said. “This is a dark day for our officers.” The...

Tropical Storm Zeta has formed in the Western Caribbean Sea, destined for the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Mash the graphics below to enlarge. All links and images are self-updating. NHC Public Advisories NHC Forecast Discussions Tropical Tidbits by Levi Cowan Mobile AL Radar LoopNew Orleans Radar LoopNorthwest Florida Radar LoopHavana Weather LiveBuoy Obs Near Storm Track

Could the Gulf have yet another tropical storm soon? It continued to look more likely as of Saturday night, according to the National Hurricane Center. Forecasters said Tropical Depression 28 had formed on Saturday afternoon south of Cuba. It could become Tropical Storm Zeta by Sunday and a hurricane by Tuesday, when it is expected to be in the southern Gulf. Landfall could come anywhere from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle -- including Alabama’s coast -- on Wednesday. However, it is expected weaken before then to a tropical storm.

Officer’s 2-Year-Old Son Murdered By Wanted Fugitive Tom Gantert Baton Rouge, LA – The two-year-old son of a New Roads police officer was gunned down inside his mother’s home by a wanted career criminal who was out on parole after having tried to kill 11 people. Baton Rouge Police Sergeant L’Jean McKneely Jr. said the murderous crime spree began at about 8 p.m. on Oct. 15 when 41-year-old Kendrick Myles kidnapped his nine-year-old nephew from a home on Bluebonnet Boulevard in East Baton Rouge, The Advocate reported. Sgt. McKneely said Myles dragged the child along as he embarked on a...

Louisiana legislature just signed and turned in petition ending the Governors current emergency.

Energy produced on federal lands and waters plays a critical role in America’s energy revolution, accounting for 12% of U.S. natural gas production and nearly a quarter of U.S. oil production. Here’s what’s projected to be at stake for U.S. energy leadership if a federal leasing and development ban is enacted according to new analysis prepared by OnLocation using EIA’s National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) which is used to produce their Annual Energy Outlook.

Louisiana Officer In Critical Condition After Gunman Opens Fire On Him Holly Matkin Mangham, LA – A Mangham police officer is in critical condition after being shot in the abdomen during a traffic stop on Saturday. Franklin Parish Sheriff Kevin Cobb said the shooting occurred after Mangham Police Department (MPD) Officer Marshall Waters conducted a traffic stop on Louisiana Highway 425 near the Richland-Franklin parish line at approximately 1 p.m. on Oct. 17, KATC reported. As Officer Waters stepped out of his patrol vehicle, the driver of the vehicle he stopped opened fire, shooting him in the lower abdomen beneath...

(KLFY) More than 430-thousand Louisianans have marked their election day ballots by going to the polls for early voting. The Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office says that 430,682 ballots have been cast as of Wednesday, October 21 for the November 3 election. Registered voters have until Tuesday, October 27 at 7 p.m. to cast a ballot at your local registrar of voters office or at other designated locations in your parish. View the statewide early voting statistical report Here

Over the last few months, the Louisiana coast has endured catastrophic damage from back-to-back hurricanes, first Laura and then more recently Delta. A path of widespread devastation was left in communities across the state, including Cameron Parish, which sustained a direct hit from both hurricanes. Remarkably, nobody was killed in Cameron Parish, but dozens of deceased family members are now missing.The powerful storm surge associated with Laura and Delta was strong enough to cause the water to move massive granite and marble slabs in cemeteries in the hard-hit state. Vaults that held caskets in place ended up popping up "like...

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Want a painting of President Trump in your parking space? So be it. That's what a federal judge ruled Friday after a Louisiana teen's portrait of Trump sparked a brouhaha at his school, the Times-Picayune reports. "The painting of President Trump cannot reasonably be described as obscene or plainly offensive on its face, nor can it be construed as school-sponsored speech," US District Judge Eldon Fallon wrote, calling the Trump portrait a type of "pure political speech" the school can't prevent. The student, Ned Thomas, had the portrait commissioned after Pine Junior-Senior High School near Franklinton offered seniors the chance...

When he wasn’t packing vehicles with extra people and crashing them into big rigs and buses for the insurance money -- as federal prosecutors claim he did scores of times -- Cornelius Garrison III preferred to roll in comfort and style.... The Sept. 18 indictment described Garrison as a ringleader in a scheme that took auto insurance fraud to a wild new level – by targeting big rigs and the big dollars that can result from getting injured by one, with the right lawyers. Now authorities are hunting for his killer, while a cascade of indictments from U.S. Attorney Peter...

Hurricane Delta slammed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 2 storm on Wednesday morning, but it could be much stronger when it strikes the US Gulf Coast this weekend... As Delta churns through the warm waters of the Gulf, forecasts show it regaining Category-3 strength, with sustained wind speeds of 120 mph, by the time it approaches Louisiana and Texas on Friday. The NHC warned that the storm could bring "dangerous" hurricane-force winds and "life-threatening" storm surge. A wall of up to 11 feet of water could rush through some parts of Louisiana, with up to 4 feet of...

Hurricane Delta rapidly intensified into a potentially catastrophic Category 4 hurricane with 130 mph (215 kmh) winds Tuesday on a course to hammer southeastern Mexico and then continue on to the U.S. Gulf coast this week. The worst of the immediate impact was expected along the resort-studded northeastern tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where hurricane conditions were expected Tuesday night and landfall early Wednesday. From Tulum to Cancun, tourism-dependent communities still being soaked Tuesday by the remnants of Tropical Storm Gamma could bear the brunt of the storm... Mexico began evacuating tourists and residents from coastal areas along its Riviera...

000 WTNT61 KNHC 061520 TCUAT1 Hurricane Delta Tropical Cyclone Update NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL262020 1120 AM EDT Tue Oct 06 2020 ...RECENTLY RECEIVED DATA FROM A NOAA HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT DELTA HAS RAPIDLY STRENGTHENED INTO A CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE... Data from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate that Delta is continuing to rapidly strengthen. The maximum winds have increased to near 130 mph (215 km/h) with higher gusts. This makes Delta a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. SUMMARY OF 1120 AM EDT...1520 UTC...INFORMATION --------------------------------------------------- LOCATION...18.2N 82.7W ABOUT 315 MI...510 KM ESE...

The 2020 Atlantic Hurricane epidemic continues for the Gulf of Mexico. Delta is currently forecast to reach hurricane strength in the Gulf of Mexico. Wearily and warily, we are once again looking at potential dueling storms in the Gulf of Mexico. There is a possibility we witness a Fujiwhara effect between Delta and Gamma. Delta is expected to be the dominant storm system. Meanwhile, Gamma moved much further northeast than previously anticipated. Mash the graphics below to enlarge. All links and images are self-updating. Gamma Delta Gamma Public Advisory Delta Public Advisory Gamma Forecast Discussion Delta Forecast Discussion Florida Radar...

Ablack separatist paramilitary group known as the “Not F$%*ing (expletive) Around Coalition” #NFAC marched with weapons clutched in their hands through the streets of Lafayette, Louisiana, Saturday. However, only a few news outlets and independent journalists appeared to have reported on the situation, even while the escalation of racial tensions have led to riots across the nation over the past year. A journalist and cameraman from News2Share.com by the Twitter name of Ford Fischer posted the developments from Louisiana on Twitter Saturday. It was later picked up and spread across various twitter feeds. One person was arrested after firing shots...

An armed Black militia, called the Not F---ing Around Coalition, gathered in downtown Lafayette on Saturday in response to Higgins’s violent threats last month against its leader, John Jay Fitzgerald Johnson, and other members of the group. Before the demonstration officially began, there were reports of shots fired and at least one person was arrested.

It started out as a story about a police officer who was ambushed in small-town Louisiana. But within days, the tale unraveled. The officer had shot himself, his department said. At 11:20 p.m. on Sunday, Police Officer John Michael Goulart Jr. radioed in to the Pineville Police Department that he needed help. He said that he had been fired upon by an unknown assailant as he was getting out of his patrol car at a strip mall in Pineville, a Louisiana city of 16,000 people that lies about 100 miles northwest of Baton Rouge. “A Great Place to Call Home,”...

The nineteenth named storm of the busy 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season developed off the southern Florida peninsula. The storm track forecast carries Sally across the southern FL peninsula into the Gulf of Mexico. Mash the graphics below to enlarge. All links and images are self-updating. NHC Public Advisories NHC Forecast Discussions NWS Local StatementsKey West Radar LoopMobile AL Radar LoopNew Orleans Radar Loop Buoy Obs Near Storm Track