Category Archives: News
LHSAA still plans on holding football championships in the Superdome December 26-28
Even though we are seeing more and more canceled high school football games because of COVID-19, the LHSAA is moving forward with plans to have a postseason, with the championship games at the Superdo...
Nov 10, 2020
Hurricane Zeta battered Louisiana's citrus crop
Hurricane Zeta did a lot of damage to crops in southeast Louisiana, the most hurricane damage suffered in the area since Katrina in 2005. LSU Ag Center Horticultural Agent Joe Willis said growers lost...
Nov 10, 2020 Iain Buchanan / CC
LSU-Bama postponed
Saturday's LSU-Bama game in Baton Rouge has been postponed due to a COVID outbreak on LSU's team. CBS Sports National College Football Writer Dennis Dodd says it's not a surprise that we would lose a ...
Nov 10, 2020 Shoshanah / CC
The number of COVID-19 patients in the hospital approaching 700 again
The state health department reported 1,307 new coronavirus cases Tuesday bringing the state's total to 189,682. Governor John Bel Edwards says the number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized also increas...
Nov 10, 2020
AG Landry requests the US Supreme Court invalidate "illegal" PA ballots
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, head of the Republican Attorneys General Association, asks the US Supreme Court to hear a case challenging the legality of many Pennsylvania mail-in ballots. Be...
Nov 10, 2020 Glenn Beltz / CC
State Fire Marshal Butch Browning reflects on Matthews sentence and church fires
23-year-old Holden Matthews was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison on state charges for the arson of three historically black churches in St. Landry Parish over a ten-day span in 2019. Matthews wa...
Nov 10, 2020 Butch Browning, State Fire Marshal
NOLA Mayor blasts Lauren Daigle, others for unpermitted French Quarter concert
An unpermitted Christian music concert held in the French Quarter featuring Lafayette star Lauren Daigle provokes a "furious" response from New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell. An estimated 400 people p...
Nov 09, 2020
2,000 Louisiana National Guard soldiers deploying overseas
The 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Louisiana National Guard is shipping out this week for a nearly year-long deployment to the Middle East. About 2,000 LNG soldiers are involved in the miss...
Nov 09, 2020
Orgeron says no place for racism and team dealing with COVID outbreak
LSU Coach Ed Orgeron says he met with freshman wide receiver Koy Moore and his family after Moore stated he was violated by Baton Rouge Police Officers Saturday night. Moore, who is black, said that o...
Nov 09, 2020 Koy Moore, LSU Freshman Wide Receiver
Public health officials to craft regulations to allow clergy to visit patients during public health emergencies
A bill to allow clergy members into healthcare facilities to visit patients during public health emergencies unanimously passed during the special session and was signed into law by Governor Edwards. ...
Nov 09, 2020 (R) Sen Robert Mills, Minden
