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We are headed toward spring and planting season for a lot of things. We are starting to get good reports from South Louisiana on the strawberry crop.

Start humming the Darth Vader theme music now: Costumed members of the Empire's Earth-bound 501st Legion will help judge a "Star Wars" costume contest this weekend at the Chalmette Movies.

START, La., - UPDATE: The exit ramp on I-20 at Start has now been reopened. The 18-wheeler was freed from the mud where it ran off the ramp, and the road cleared.

The gloves came off at Monday night's City Council meeting when Mayor Thomas Nelson defended his decision to call in the Louisiana State Police to patrol the city's neighborhoods.