Joe Collins
Weekend Anchor at WBRZ-TV (Baton Rouge, LA)
@WBRZ Weekend Anchor & MMJ. Ohio University Alum.
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4 days ago |
wbrz.com | Joe Collins |Kelly Kissel
BATON ROUGE -- State Sen. Mike Fesi (R-Houma) has convinced lawmakers to pass his bill that aims to ban weather modification in Louisiana. The bill seeks to prohibit acts such as cloud seeding, which includes dispersing silver iodine into clouds to make precipitation. It has come to be associated with what some people call contrails and others call chemtrails - white streaks people on the ground can see after planes fly overhead. Fesi believes someone is spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.
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6 days ago |
wbrz.com | Joe Collins
BATON ROUGE - Hurricane season has kicked off and agencies are working to make sure Louisianians are prepared for the possible storms. On Sunday, the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority hosted the Louisiana Safe Storm Event at the LSU Center for River Studies in Baton Rouge to provide people with valuable tips.
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1 week ago |
wbrz.com | Joe Collins
GONZALES - A dog owner is asking for accountability after two loose pit bulls attacked his dog while on a walk, leading to its death. "I just want some accountability, somebody to be held responsible for it. I know some people are going to say, it's just a dog, but not to me," Gonzales resident Gene Austin Sr. said. Austin was taking his dog Jake, a Shih Tzu/Yorkie mix who Austin says only weighs about 15 pounds, for a walk Sunday, May 25.
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1 week ago |
wbrz.com | Joe Collins
BATON ROUGE — As summer begins in earnest after Memorial Day weekend, many Louisiana families will head to the pool, river, lake or beach to cool off from the hot sun. However, more time outside without taking proper precautions to protect skin from the sun leads to an increased chance of developing harmful skin cancers like Melanoma. "Melanoma is commonly found on the back.
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2 weeks ago |
wbrz.com | Joe Collins
LIVINGSTON -- 2025 marks a special year for LIGO Livingston. On September 14, it will mark the 10th anniversary of the Observatory detecting gravitational waves on Earth for the first time. The waves were produced from the merger of two massive black holes. "The first one we saw, the two things that were in orbit around each other, were black holes each weighing as much as 30 suns," LIGO Livingston Observatory Head Joseph Giaime said. The two black holes were more than a billion light-years away.
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