Category Archives: News
Angola State Penitentiary being considered to house ICE detainees
Angola State Penitentiary may begin housing ICE detainees. Louisiana leaders and the Trump administration are in talks to use the prison facility as the President widens the crackdown on immigrants in...
Aug 08, 2025
Former Golden Meadow Police Chief Troy Dufrene arrested for injuring public records, malfeasance in office and computer tampering
The former police chief of the small Lafourche Parish community of Golden Meadow is arrested for allegedly deleting a dozen years worth of files on his way out the door. Tony Dufrene is charged with i...
Aug 08, 2025 Former Golden Meadow Police Chief TROY DUFRENE (photo courtesy of Office of Attorney General Liz Murrill)
Forecasters continue to predict an above-average 2025 hurricane season as peak activity looms on the horizon
The Colorado State University hurricane forecast team continues to call for a slightly above-average 2025 hurricane season. There have been four named storms so far this year, but none of them have gr...
Aug 07, 2025 Kabsik Park / CC
According to preliminary data, Louisiana birth rates are on the decline
Statistics show that the birth rate in Louisiana is on the decline. Preliminary data shows that just over 52,000 babies were born in Louisiana last year. That's down from more than 63,000 in 2013. All...
Aug 07, 2025 Tim Bish / Unsplash
Louisiana SNAP recipients can now receive a monetary bonus when they purchase fresh produce at Walmart stores in eleven parishes
The state is expanding a program that puts money back on a SNAP recipients EBT card when they buy fresh produce. Tim Jenkins with the Department of Children and Family Services says SNAP recipients ca...
Aug 06, 2025
Beginning in January 2026, Louisiana SNAP recipients will be prohibited from using food stamp benefits to purchase soda, energy drinks and candy
Starting in January, SNAP recipients will no longer be able to use their food stamp benefits to purchase soda, energy drinks and candy. Governor Jeff Landry asked the federal government to prohibit th...
Aug 06, 2025
NASA grant to support research partnership between LSU, Southern and Louisiana Tech
A $1.4 million grant from NASA will support a three-year research collaboration between LSU, Southern and Louisiana Tech. Dr. Andrew Peters, a professor of chemical engineering at Louisiana Tech, says...
Aug 06, 2025
State Department of Education to emphasize work-based learning, structured physical education classes this school year
A new school year gets underway this week and an emphasis this year for the Louisiana Department of Education is to expand work-based learning opportunities for high school students. State Superintend...
Aug 06, 2025
Louisiana school districts now allowed to accept advertising from politicians and political groups for athletics, school clubs
Starting this school year, school districts will be permitted to accept advertising from politicians and political groups for athletics and other school clubs. It's a new law which was written by Gonz...
Aug 06, 2025
Grambling State Band Announcer BJ Bell signs NIL deal with Monroe-based attorney Eddie Clark & Associates
B.J. Bell serves as the Voice of Grambling State's World Famed Tiger Marching Band, but his job will be a bit different after becoming the first band announcer to land an NIL deal. Bell signed with Mo...
Aug 06, 2025 Attorney EDDIE CLARKE (left) and B.J. BELL (photo courtesy of B.J. BELL)
