Category Archives: News
LSU self-imposes a one-year bowl ban. No bowl game for the Tigers for the first time since 1999
LSU has self-imposed a one-year bowl ban on its football program. So that means no bowl game for the Tigers for the first time since 1999. Even though the Bayou Bengals are 3-5, Athletic Director Scot...
Dec 10, 2020
Health officials say post-Thanksgiving COVID cases beginning to surface
The Louisiana Department of Health reported its single highest day number of COVID-19 cases Wednesday with 4,339 new cases. Acadiana Region Medical Director Dr. Tina Stefanski said cases were already ...
Dec 10, 2020 Dr. Tina Stefanski, LDH Region 4 Medical Director
Rep. Graves confident in a COVID relief deal next week
Congressman Garret Graves feels we could have an agreement in place on a COVID relief bill in Washington sometime next week. The price tag is reportedly around 900 billion dollars. Graves said much of...
Dec 09, 2020 (R) Congressman Garret Graves - District 6
Pfizer COVID vaccine nears emergency approval
An advisory panel meets Wednesday to determine whether the Pfizer vaccine should receive emergency approval in the United States. The panel will review the results of both the FDA's and Pfizer's findi...
Dec 09, 2020 Jernej Furman / CC
Can you lose your job if refuse a COVID vaccination?
Sixty percent of people questioned by a Pew Research Survey say they plan to get vaccinated for COVID. But for the other 40 percent can your employer require you to be inoculated? According to Loyola ...
Dec 09, 2020 NIAID / CC
LA suffers enough COVID deaths to fill eight flu seasons
Statewide in the near nine months since our first COVID linked fatality, we've had enough COVID deaths to fill eight average flu seasons. Those numbers come from New Orleans-based data analyst Jeff As...
Dec 09, 2020 sergio santos / CC
Ed Orgeron confirms Arik Gilbert has opted out the remainder of the season
LSU Football Coach Ed Orgeron confirmed today that star freshman Tight End Arik Gilbert has opted out for the remainder of the season. Orgeron says he met with Gilbert yesterday. "He told me he was tr...
Dec 09, 2020
DOE: 2,600 educators and principals participate in virtual instruction workshop
The Louisiana Department of Education says 2,646 of its teachers and principals have participated in workshops to help provide better virtual instruction to students. "Teachers would learn different s...
Dec 09, 2020
Governor Edwards: State set to receive 79,000 COVID vaccine doses soon
Governor John Bel Edwards said at the White House Coronavirus vaccine summit that he expects the state will have 79,000 vaccine doses during the first two weeks of distribution and the first 39,000 co...
Dec 09, 2020 Tom Lohdan / CC
State HS football championships moving to Natchitoches
The 2020 high school football Prep Classic state championships are being moved from the Superdome to Northwestern State in Natchitoches. LHSAA director Eddie Bonine said it costs half a million dollar...
Dec 08, 2020
