BATON ROUGE - As one last test drive before the regular season gets started, high school football teams in the area batted in football jamborees. The most high-profile clash of the night was at Memorial Stadium between Catholic and U-High.

LSU football head coach Lane Kiffin was in attendance to watch his son Knox Kiffin start at quarterback for U-High, but the day belonged to Catholic. The Bears had the Cubs' number all night, and the U-High offense never really felt like it got in gear.

Catholic won the game 20-0.

Elsewhere in the Battle on the Bluff, McKinley won on a last-minute touchdown. Kaleb Brown scored a quick touchdown, and then found an open Marquis Turner to convert the two-point conversion.

The Panthers won 8-6.

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BIRMINGHAM - Alabama State quarterback and 2025 SWAC Offensive Player of the Year Andrew Body is a tough quarterback to go against in week one, particularly for a Southern Jaguars team looking to turn the page after 2025's 2-10 record.

But for Jags head coach Marshall Faulk, he sees the early opportunity to face Body as something of a blessing.

"All the things you want in a quarterback, he does it well," said Faulk. "We're lucky to get him week one. I'd hate to have him week four or five. Week one, we might get him to make a mistake."

One of the players Faulk's relying on to keep Body on his toes is returning Southern safety Herman Brister III.

"We're going to play our brand of football," said Brister. "He's going to play quarterback, and we're going to treat him like he's another quarterback."

Last season, Body threw for 198 yards with two touchdowns, as the Hornets beat the Jags 30-7.

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BIRMINGHAM - With Southern offensive coordinator Ken Merchant's "Go-Go offense" relying heavily on the run game, it's easy to look at Jags' star running back Trey Holly. However, there are more backs on Southern's roster that are looking to make an impact for the Jags in 2026.

"Mike Franklin has been phenomenal," said Southern head coach Marshall Faulk. "He had a Lisfranc injury. He came back from that. He's been looking phenomenal in practice; I'm looking forward to seeing Mike. I think Mike is a guy with what he does on special teams; some NFL team, they're going to look at him. They're going to give him a shot."

Historically, Merchant's offenses have run the ball at a high volume with a high rate of success. The 2025 Sacramento State Hornets, Merchant's team last season, were second in FCS in rushing yards per game.

Unfortunately, that success isn't expected to carry the Jags through their week one game against Alabama State. Southern is a 19.5-point underdog heading into the game.

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DALLAS - The New Orleans Saints closed out their preseason with a 27-24 victory over the Dallas Cowboys.

Spencer Rattler got the start at quarterback with the starters, including Tyler Shough, resting. Rattler started the first half and went eight of 10 for 79 yards, while Zach Wilson went nine of 12 for 93 yards in the second half.

With 1:55 left in the game, newly-acquired kicker Daniel Carlson made a 53-yard field goal to secure the victory for the Saints. They finished the preseason with a 1-2 record.

The Saints open the regular season 12 p.m. at Detroit on Sept. 13.

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BATON ROUGE — A 19-year-old is making his way through Baton Rouge as part of a 2,000-mile journey down the Mississippi River.

Ian Aitken started the trip three months ago, paddling from Minnesota. He has been documenting his travels and posting daily updates on Facebook.

Aitken chose the trip over college, hoping to have stories to share with his kids one day. He is already making plans for his next journey, which he says he will announce soon.

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BATON ROUGE — LSU's first game is eight days away and fans, employees and students are getting a sneak peek at what game day food will look like this season.

WBRZ's Angelica Butine and Madison Smith checked out a "Taste of Tiger Stadium" event at Tiger Stadium.

Trey Devine was on hand representing a local business that will be providing food at the stadium. Devine said his setup will be located in the student section.

Devine said he hopes people walk away with a good experience.

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A push by fans to rename Nashville’s airport for Dolly Parton appears to be taking flight just days after the country music icon’s death.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and the CEO of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority both came out in favor of the name change Friday. It’s expected to come up at the authority’s meeting next month.

Long before 80-year-old Parton died Tuesday, fans in January 2025 started an online petition calling for officials to rename Nashville International Airport in her honor. It got renewed attention following Parton’s death, jumping to more than 155,000 signatures Friday.

The change would make Parton the first woman whose name adorns one of America’s 50 busiest airports.

The governor said he’s already discussed the idea with representatives for Parton.

“At a place where Tennessee welcomes the world, it is fitting that Nashville International Airport would bear the name of our state’s favorite daughter and greet travelers with the enduring legacy of Dolly’s music, generosity, faith, and kindness,” Lee said in a statement.

Born in poverty in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, Parton became an icon whose popularity crossed generational, geographic and political boundaries. In addition to writing and recording hit songs such as “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You,” she starred in Hollywood films including “9 to 5” and “Steel Magnolias.”

A number of American airports bear the names of beloved celebrities, from Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky, to John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California. New Orleans’ airport was renamed for jazz icon Louis Armstrong in 2001.

The vast majority of U.S. airports named for a person honor men. Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, is one exception. Another is Amelia Earhart Memorial Airport in Atchison, Kansas.

Putting Parton’s name on the Nashville airport could require its governing authority to revisit its policy for such honors, which states that airport properties should only be named for people who have been dead for at least two years.

The governor’s office said his proposal and the naming policy will be discussed by the airport authority at its meeting Sept. 17.

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LOUISIANA — A legislative package signed into law ahead of SpaceX's $100 billion Starship launchpad announcement in Vermilion Parish creates tax incentives and legal protections.

Gov. Jeff Landry signed six bills into law before the Aug. 25 announcement that SpaceX will build a Starship launchpad in the small Vermilion Parish city of Abbeville.

Rep. Paul Sawyer, a Baton Rouge Republican, was one of 15 bipartisan sponsors of House Bill 1088. The legislation authorizes tax rebates on certain machinery and other items for approved aerospace facilities.

Rep. Sawyer called the SpaceX launchpad a game-changing investment for the state.

"SpaceX is transformational. In my view, SpaceX is the equivalent of Louisiana discovering oil for the first time," Sawyer said.

House Bill 1179, sponsored by Tony Bacala of Ascension Parish, extends tax exemption eligibility to aerospace manufacturing, assembly, and testing facilities.

House Bill 1098 shields aerospace companies from certain lawsuits, including claims over noise, smoke, or other disturbances tied to flight activity.

Longtime Abbeville resident Marilyn Mitchell raised concerns about the project and questioned the decisions of state lawmakers.

"If you're representing me, you're supposed to have my best interest at heart," Mitchell said. "We don't know how much noise we're going to get. We don't know what kind of effects we're going to have with that."

House Bill 1071 shields aerospace records from the public, including plans, technical data and security records.

House Bill 1250 gives aerospace companies a tool to fight costly lawsuits by allowing them to file a special motion that temporarily pauses the evidence-gathering process.

House Bill 1175 adds new definitions to state law covering aerospace facilities, launch vehicles, and space flight activities.

"None of what we had in our economic toolbox of economic incentives really applied to SpaceX. So really, we're treating SpaceX no differently than we would treat Exxon or BASF or DOW," Rep. Sawyer said.

Sawyer said the new deal with SpaceX was a full-circle moment for him.

"For me, this was a second chance because years ago, I used to work at the Department of Economic Development and my job was to recruit aerospace companies. And, in fact, I did recruit SpaceX to come to Louisiana. I brought them to Louisiana... And we failed, by the way."

None of Vermilion Parish's legislators sponsored any of the six bills, but they did unanimously vote "yes" on most of those bills.

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WASHINGTON — Walmart has agreed to pay $50 million to settle allegations that its pharmacies illegally filled thousands of invalid opioid prescriptions, the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration announced Friday.

The government's complaint, originally filed Dec. 22, 2020, and later amended in 2022 in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, alleged that since June 26, 2013, Walmart filled invalid prescriptions through the knowing actions of individuals on its compliance team and its pharmacists.

According to the complaint, members of Walmart's compliance team knew certain prescribers were operating as "pill mills" but filled their prescriptions anyway. Walmart's own pharmacists had flagged the conduct to the corporate compliance team through thousands of "refusal-to-fill" forms.

Rather than acting on those reports, one director on the compliance team acknowledged in an email that the team viewed "[d]riving sales and patient awareness" as "a far better use of our Market Directors and Market managers' time."

Walmart pharmacists also allegedly filled prescriptions they knew were invalid. Those prescriptions reportedly showed red flags such as dangerous combinations of opioids, excessively repeated fills of high-dosage opioids or repeated requests for early fills of often-abused controlled substances.

"Today's settlement proves this Department is committed to putting Americans' flourishing first," Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said. "This Department will never shy away from vigorously enforcing pharmacies' obligations to comply with those protections, ensuring that potential profits never justify aiding our Nation's opioid epidemic."

As part of the settlement, Walmart also entered into a memorandum of agreement with the DEA covering its future obligations in dispensing controlled substances. The agreement requires Walmart to set up a hotline for employees and patients to report suspected illegal dispensing, monitor dispensing patterns across its pharmacies and establish a process to evaluate prescribers suspected of illegal prescribing.

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SLAUGHTER — The Trump administration is allowing 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef into the country to bring down record prices for consumers.

President Trump signed a proclamation that temporarily lowers tariffs on some foreign beef imports. The administration expects the beef to arrive in three 30-day shipments starting Sept. 1.

Amelia Kent, co-owner and manager of Kent Farms LLC and vice president of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation, said the administration's announcement last Friday to bring in an additional 300,000 metric tons of ground beef and lean beef trim at a reduced tariff rate is sending a troubling signal to cattle producers.

"The signaling it's providing to all of agriculture and cattle producers, especially cattle producers like me, is really troubling because yes, we're having record-high beef prices and that is correlated with record-high cattle prices," Kent said. "But everything else is high right now too."

Kent said she can appreciate that the president is trying to help consumers with rising food costs, but the cattle market has already felt the impact.

"The way the cattle market has responded in the past week is what is really challenging for cattle producers across the board," she said, "because very similar to the stock market, the cattle markets have shown a reaction to the president's announcement a week ago."

She said cash prices at the farm gate fell following the announcement, creating direct economic pressure on her business.

Kent said the cost of maintaining a single cow has nearly doubled since the pandemic. Before 2020, direct maintenance costs ran between $500 and $550 per cow. Now, when factoring in labor, that figure is approaching $1,000 per cow.

She also pointed to fuel and fertilizer costs that have nearly doubled since February as adding to the pressure cattle producers are already facing.

"Almost all of the expenditures we have throughout the course of a production year have increased, whether it's 50% or 75% or in some cases 100%," Kent said.

Kent said she and other ranchers would prefer to see markets play out without government interference and believes targeting diesel fuel and fertilizer costs would have a broader benefit than adjusting beef import tariffs.

She also pointed to a series of challenges stacking up for the cattle industry, including the national cow herd sitting at its smallest size in 70 years, a New World Screwworm parasite threat that has halted live cattle imports from Mexico into Arizona, New Mexico and Texas for the past 14 months, and infrastructure strain in Texas tied to feed and packing capacity.

"We've got almost a perfect storm on supply relative to the cattle producer," Kent said.

Kent also raised concerns about the inspection standards of foreign beef compared to domestic production.

"Beef that's been grown, harvested and processed in the United States has incredibly high inspection standards ensuring health and safety through that entire process down to the consumer public," she said. "And we cannot say the same about some of our other beef-producing countries and their inspection standards."

Trump's proclamation, which takes effect Sept. 1, applies only to lean beef trimmings used to combine with U.S. beef for ground beef. The 300,000 metric tons will be delivered in three 30-day tranches over more than 90 days.

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BATON ROUGE — A lawsuit filed on Friday accuses the Louisiana prison system of delaying inmates' release following a state audit that found prison officials lacked an adequate way to determine inmates' release dates. 

The plaintiffs in the case, Lisa Andres and Jaren Brignac, claim that Louisiana violated their constitutional rights by overdetaining them. 

Andres was in custody between December 30, 2024 and October 16, 2025 despite being eligible for immediate release on July 7, 2025, claiming to be overdetained for at least 101 days.

Similarly, Brignac, who was in custody between July 29, 2024 and June 27, 2025 even though he was eligible for release on June 18, 2025 when the Orleans Parish court sentenced him to concurrent terms with credit for time served, ordered his release and closed his case. Brignac claimed to have been overdetained for at least nine days. 

According to the lawsuit, the pair claimed that by the time an individual is sentenced by a judge, that person has likely spent time in a parish jail from the time of the initial arrest to sentencing, which could amount to years of incarceration.

They also claimed that the state failed to make policy changes that require officials to release inmates in a timely manner. 

The lawsuit alleges that the central time-computation office waits to receive sentencing or revocation paperwork from courts, sheriffs and its own parole board before allegedly waiting again to review paperwork and decide whether the department has any authority to continue holding the person.

During that time, the lawsuit claims a person who is legally entitled to a release will remain detained without any way to know when the department will process the necessary paperwork and order a release. 

The lawsuit also alleges that the overdetention issue was a known issue before Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Secretary Gary Westcott took office. 

In 2012, the department conducted a review of its time-computation process and found that it was overdetaining over 2,000 people each year by an average of about 71 days. The study also found that it took about 79 days for the department to calculate a release date even after sentencing had taken place. 

While the department claimed that updated technology would fix the overdetention issue, there is no evidence that either the rate or the average duration of overdetention has decreased, according to the lawsuit.

In February, state auditors found that Louisiana prison officials did not have an adequate way to review calculations made when determining an inmate's release date for five consecutive reports.

On Friday, Attorney General Liz Murrill released the following statement regarding the lawsuit:

“My office has worked with the Louisiana Department of Corrections tirelessly for several years to build and implement a new system, train staff, train sheriffs, and train court and clerk staff across our state. These lawsuits are nothing more than an attempt at a money grab. The activists behind these suits do not want progress and actively obstruct it. That’s a shame because LDOC continually works at improving its systems. Calculating time is a complex task due to the plainly evident fact that detainees do not come into state custody legally or physically until after they are sentenced.”

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BATON ROUGE - A man is at odds with his civic association after putting up a fence in the front yard for the dog. Ron Atwood tells 2 On Your Side he didn't know there were HOA rules against it; now he's navigating an expensive ordeal.

"They say I've got to take the fence down," said Atwood.

Zoe is a 14-year-old Chihuahua with heart problems. She belongs to Atwood's daughter, who is staying with him. Zoe might not be aware, but she has caused a lot of trouble for Atwood, since he built a fence in his front yard for her.

The fence has been in Atwood's front yard for a year and a half. Atwood has been getting pushback from the Sherwood Forest Civic Association ever since. The fence cost about $3,800. It's in the front yard because Atwood says the backyard isn't safe for Zoe.

The first subdivision filing dates back to 1955. According to the civic association website, there are many filings. Some of those deed restrictions differ from one filing to the next. Some may allow front yard fences, with approval. This is the case for a few of Atwood's neighbors who have fences in their front yards.

"There are two that way, two this way; they've got fences in their front yard, and they've been having them for years," said Atwood.

Where Atwood lives, they aren't allowed at all.

Atwood has been served a signed judgment. It says he has to take his fence down. 

"They'll arrest me, I guess," said Atwood.

All because of Zoe, who needs a safe spot to go outside. 

Atwood is hopeful to negotiate the fence removal, keeping it until Zoe passes, but says he will take the fence down if he has to.

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ST. GEORGE — The St. George Fire Department responded to a car fire at the intersection of Bluebonnet Boulevard and Perkins Road on Friday afternoon.

The fire took place around 4 p.m. According to the department, there were no injuries.

The cause of the fire remains unknown at this time. 

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DONALDSONVILLE — The Mosaic Company will lay off over 200 employees at two of its Louisiana facilities due to ongoing sulfur supply constraints affecting phosphate fertilizer production. 

According to a WARN notice filed on Aug. 26, the Mosaic Company will have 206 workers laid off by Saturday, Oct. 10.

Company spokespeople said in a prepared statement that global sulfur supply constraints and “extraordinary market conditions” led to the decision to reduce portions of its workforce at its Uncle Sam and Faustina facilities, located in Donaldsonville and Convent.

According to the company’s website, with more than 500 employees and contractors in Louisiana, the company is one of the largest employers in St. James Parish.

Ammonia production at Faustina continues uninterrupted during the idling of phosphate operations. Company officials noted the challenge was previously disclosed in its Q2 earnings release and discussed during its earnings call.

“As previously disclosed in our Q2 earnings release and discussed during our earnings call, Mosaic is navigating an ongoing challenge related to the availability and cost of sulfur, an essential input for phosphate fertilizer production,” reads a statement from the company. “The safety of our employees, contractors, communities, and the environment remains Mosaic's highest priority. Mosaic will continue to responsibly manage its facilities and assets, in accordance with regulatory requirements.”

The company also plans to pursue opportunities to resume full operations as market conditions improve, according to officials.

In a letter, a spokesperson for Mosaic said the company intends to support its employees in the transition.

"We recognize how difficult this news is for our employees and their families. Please know that we are committed to supporting them through this transition, with the care and safety of our people and communities as our top priority," the letter read.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — U.S. Immigration officials arrested controversial British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday in New Orleans, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Immigration officials said that Yiannopoulos was arrested at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Friday and accused him of entering the United States illegally in May 2019 through New York City. An immigration judge issued a final order of removal on July 22 after Yiannopoulos failed to show up for his immigration hearing, a DHS spokesperson wrote in an email.

“He chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s laws,” a spokesperson for DHS wrote in an emailed statement.

ICE’s online detainee locator doesn’t say where Yiannopoulos is being held but directs family and legal representatives to the agency’s office in Alexandria, Louisiana, a deportation hub for international flights.

Representatives of Yiannopoulos did not respond to a request for comment. It is unclear whether he has legal representation.

The British national has most recently worked for the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, who is scheduled to perform in New Orleans on Friday evening.

Yiannopoulos is a well-known champion of conservative causes and has frequently taken provocative public positions criticizing feminism, Islam and immigrants. He has been especially supportive of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

“Zero immigration for the next 20 years. No ifs, no buts,” Yiannopoulos wrote on the social platform X last year.

Yiannopoulos rose to fame in the early 2010s as an incendiary writer for the conservative website Breitbart News. He resigned from the company in 2017 after a video of him endorsing pedophilia resurfaced online. He later apologized for the remarks and said he himself was a victim of sexual assault as a minor.

Yiannopoulos' arrest Friday comes amid a nationwide uptick in detentions as part of Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Far-right conservative activist Laura Loomer swiftly took to social media to applaud Yiannopoulos’ arrest after years of public feuding between the two personalities.

“I was the first person to report on the fact that Milo was in the US illegally where he incited violence against President Trump and worked for Marjorie Traitor Greene,” Loomer wrote on X.

Controversy around Yiannopoulos ballooned in 2017 when he carried out what he called his “Troll Academy Tour” across college campuses nationwide. Fights broke out when some students protested Yiannopoulos' appearances and accused him of hate speech, while others celebrated him as a champion of free speech. Around that time, Buzzfeed reported on Yiannopoulos' cozy relationships with self-proclaimed white nationalists.

In recent years, Yiannopoulos continued to work in the orbit of conservative activism. In 2022, he was an intern for former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, according to the Washington Post. He subsequently ran the short-lived 2024 presidential campaign for Ye. Most recently, Yiannopolous has worked as a spokesperson for Ye, who has been beset by controversy of his own following antisemitic comments that the rapper has since apologized for.

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DONALDSONVILLE — The West Ascension Parish Hospital announced on Friday the launch of a new electronic health record system that will strengthen care coordination while improving access to health information. 

The new system, called EPIC CommunityConnect, will go live on Sept. 1.

According to the hospital, it has prepared for the new system over the past 11 months through clinical preparation, staff training, technology integration, workflow redesign, data migration, and testing to ensure patients receive a more connected healthcare experience. 

EPIC, one of the nation's leading electronic health record platforms, will provide the hospital with enhanced capabilities to securely manage and share patient health information across participating healthcare organizations. 

"From a nursing and clinical perspective, having timely and comprehensive patient information is extremely important," said Chief Nursing Officer Loretta Larvadin. "EPIC will give our care teams a more integrated view of the patient’s healthcare journey, which can help us make better-informed clinical decisions and improve communication across the continuum of care."

Benefits from the new system include improved access to health information, allowing authorized healthcare providers to access important medical information, more complete clinical information, reduced duplication of testing and procedures and improved medication management.

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BATON ROUGE — The WBRZ Investigative Unit has uncovered documents that shed light on one of the key issues behind the indictments of a Metro Council member and a blight program superintendent.

We sorted through stacks of monthly community outreach reports from Metro Council districts, each of which is supposed to detail all the blight a worker located and reported that month.

Mary Fontenot worked as one of those outreach workers for more than 15 years.

"The job was to drive around and see blight and report it, and blight was junk, trash and debris or overgrown yards and lots or swimming pools that didn't have fences around them," Fontenot said.

A close look at the documents shows a varying degree of detail depending on the person filling out the report. Some are very descriptive while others are not.

"Some did more than others, let's just put it that way," Fontenot said. "They met their requirement, but I always did more than the requirement."

One of the less detailed reports came from Terral Jackson, who worked as the outreach manager for District 7 until January of this year when he was indicted alongside Lamont Cole for corruption. The reports received from Jackson were little more than an invoice for payment.

Jackson and each of the seven other blight contractors are paid $2,000 per month for what is supposed to be 20 hours of work per month -- a total of $168,000 a year for the group.

Paycheck stubs show the workers were earning $1,875 per month until the January 2023 check, when it increased to $2,000 per month.  

Rachael Lambert heads the Department of Development and oversees the blight program.

"The outreach workers at one time worked under each councilperson's budget and when Mayor Broome came in, I do believe she was trying to stand up blight in like, an Office of Neighborhoods I believe is what they called it, and then kind of pulled them into that, which then became part of Neighborhood Revitalization, which is the formal name for the blight department," Lambert said.

Cole and Jackson, along with his wife Erica Jackson, are accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the city parish. One of the schemes agents say they ran was through the blight program.

According to court documents, agents believe Cole secured contracts for Jackson when he was on the Metro Council. Jackson worked two years as a community outreach worker, a position that requires a recommendation from a council member.

His first year he made $22,500. The second year, he received a $1,500 raise after the council agreed to raise contracted workers' pay to $24,000 a year.

Cole and Jackson discussed this in text messages included in the indictment. Jackson texted Cole on Jan. 23, 2023, that Cole and likely another council member whose name was redacted "have another blight spot."

Jackson told Cole, "If you finesse it to me, we can split that 24K." Cole asked if they would split it with the other person. Jackson responded, "Kinda I'll run it to you" and Cole replied, "Cool." 

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CENTRAL —The eastbound left-turn lane at the intersection of Sullivan Road and Hooper Road will close on Monday for roadwork, officials announced. 

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development said the closure will begin Monday, Aug. 31, at 6 a.m. and will end on Saturday, Sept. 5, at 4 p.m.

Officials said the closure is necessary to install a raised median, and closures are subject to change due to weather conditions. DOTD reminds motorists to drive with caution through work zones. 

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The Capital Area will enjoy a warm, mostly calm start to the weekend before typical late-August moisture pushes rain coverage higher Sunday and Monday. While afternoon temperatures will consistently reach the low 90s, high humidity will make heat index values feel well above 100 degrees before afternoon storms.

Drier Day: weekend starts with minimal pop-up showers

Afternoon T-Storms: scattered around Sunday into next week

No Chill: above average highs in the low to mid 90s continue

Tonight & Tomorrow: Under clear skies, low temperatures will drop to a seasonable range in the mid 70s tonight. Thanks to some relatively drier air in the atmosphere, Saturday will bring plenty of sunshine and no more than spotty afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Across Metro Baton Rouge, high temperatures will climb into the low 90s tomorrow.

Up Next: Starting Sunday, the upper-level ridge of high pressure will shift away from our area, allowing rich moisture to flow back in from the Gulf. This transition will trigger isolated showers and thunderstorms beginning Sunday and ramping up to scattered activity on Monday.

For much of the rest of next week, standard late summer weather will persist. Heat will continue, only interrupted in some neighborhoods by isolated, pop-up showers and thunderstorms.

Get the latest 7-day forecast and real-time weather updates HERE.

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The Tropics: The National Hurricane Center has issued its final advisory on the remnants of Dolly over the central tropical Atlantic. No tropical cyclone formation is expected across the Gulf, Caribbean, or Atlantic over the next 7 days.

– Josh 

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