Water damage: Louisiana’s Office of State Parks says the park at Tickfaw and the cabins and campgrounds at Lake Fausse Pointe will be closed for up to a year to repair flood damage. Spokeswoman Sharon Broussard tells The Associated Press that Tickfaw State Park cannot open for day use because the August flood damaged the bathrooms as well as the cabins and campgrounds. She says bathrooms at Lake Fausse Point State Park did not flood. That park is open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week. Officials say high water reached all but two buildings at Tickfaw and the bottoms of the cabins at both parks, warping floors and causing moderate mold damage. The group camp at Bogue Chitto State Park also is closed for floor repairs.
Getting wider: Blue Bell Creameries has widened it latest recall due to ongoing listeria concerns. CBS News reports that Iowa-based Aspen Hills said on Sunday that it is recalling cookie dough it sold to Blue Bell and other companies because the cookie dough may be contaminated with listeria bacteria. Blue Bell had already implicated Aspen Hills in a recall the ice cream company issued last month, saying that the presence of listeria was found in cookie dough ice cream products. Late Monday, Blue Bell announced an expanded recall of its products containing Aspen Hill’s cookie dough. The recall includes: half-gallons and pints of Blue Bell Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Blue Bell Cookie Two Step sold to retailers and three-gallon packages of Blue Bell Blue Monster, Blue Bell Chocolate Chip Cookie and Blue Bell Krazy Kookie Dough sold to food-service clients. Those products were produced between Feb. 2 and Sept. 7 and distributed in 16 states including Louisiana. Read the full story.
End of an era: One day after Samsung announced that it was temporarily halting production of the Galaxy Note 7, the electronics company now says it’s permanently discontinuing the smartphone. USA Today reports this morning’s announcement comes on the heels of multiple reports of the smartphone bursting into flames. Samsung released a statement today confirming it will no longer make the device after replacement phones sent to affected consumers were also experiencing dangerous overheating issues. “For the benefit of consumers’ safety, we stopped sales and exchanges of the Galaxy Note 7 and have consequently decided to stop production,” reads a statement from the company. Read the full story.
