Legendary Saints Quarterback Drew Brees is headed to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It was officially announced last night.  Brees led the Saints to the franchise’s lone Super Bowl title in the 2009 season. He also set numerous records and his success on the field helped New Orleans recover from Hurricane Katrina…

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At this hour, they are breaking ground on a River Parish Community College campus in Donaldsonville. It’s located near the site of the future Hyundai Steel mill that will employ 13-hundred workers. River Parish Community College Chancellor Quintin Taylor says the training facility they are building will provide much of the workforce for the new steel mill…

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The Donaldsonville campus is expected to open in 2028. Construction is expected to be completed on the Hyundai Steel mill in 2029.

The reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person that fatally shot a bald eagle in Vermilion Parish on December 5^th has increased to 15-thousand dollars…..

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That’s Sergeant Michael Hebert with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

Moderna says a vaccine they’ve developed with Merk is showing that it reduces the risk of death or recurrence of the deadly skin cancer known as melanoma five years after the treatment started. The head of development and oncology and therapeutics at Moderna, Doctor Kyle Holen, says Moderna is looking at several types of cancers in clinical trials, some of which are taking place in Louisiana…

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Entergy says it has completed its mission in northeast Louisiana. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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Who Dat nation is rejoicing as Drew Brees is voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Jeff Palermo has the story.

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Construction is getting underway on the Donaldsonville campus in the River Parish Community College system. Chancellor Quintin Taylor says for the first three to four years after it opens in 2028, the campus in Ascension Parish will be used specifically to train workers for the new Hyundai Steel mill, until it fills all 13-hundred jobs.

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Taylor says this is the latest in the growth of the River Parish Community College system.

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Taylor says community colleges like River Parish Community College are key to a strong workforce.

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The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is looking for the person who shot a bald eagle to death. Sergeant Michael Hebert says it happened in Erath on December 5th.

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Sergeant Hebert says a reward of up to 15-thousand dollars is being offered for information leading to a conviction in this incident.

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The bald eagle is the national bird and a national symbol of the U.S. As such, Hebert notes that from coast to coast, it is illegal to shoot a bald eagle.

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Killing a bald eagle is punishable by up to one year in jail and five-thousand dollars in both fines and civil restitution. Up until 1995, the bald eagle was classified as an endangered species. Its population has since recovered, and its conservation status is now “least concern.”

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Moderna and Merck have recently announced that a vaccine they’re working on to treat melanoma is showing lasting benefits for patients. In a five-year follow-up of an ongoing clinical trial, those with the high-risk skin cancer who take the vaccine along with Keytruda have lowered their risk of recurrence by half, compared to taking Keytruda alone. Dr. Kyle Holen, the head of development of oncology and therapeutics at Moderna, says the vaccine uses the same mRNA technology as the COVID vaccine.

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Dr. Holen says Moderna is looking at several different types of cancers in clinical trials, some of which are taking place in Louisiana.

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Holen says this could be a game-changer in how all types of cancers are treated.

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Drew Brees is the first New Orleans Saint in franchise history to be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. The formal announcement was made Thursday night. No one could have predicted that Brees would become one of the most prolific quarterbacks in NFL history when he was selected in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft.

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Brees became the first quarterback to surpass 80-thousand career passing yards, and his 571 touchdown passes are the second most in NFL history. His career completion percentage is the highest in league history.

Brees started his pro career in San Diego, but in the season before he was set to become a free agent, he suffered a career-threatening shoulder injury. Saints general manager Mickey Loomis and coach Sean Payton took a chance on him in 2006, and the rest is history.

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Brees led the Saints to the franchise’s lone Super Bowl title in the 2009 season. He also guided New Orleans to three NFC Championship Game appearances. He’s remembered for all of the records, the victories and — maybe more importantly — his role in the post-Katrina recovery.

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Brees and the rest of his class will be formally inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August.

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Dan Fouts recently showed up to Drew Brees’ home unannounced to deliver him the big news. The widely-expected news was announced last night during the NFL Honors show. Brees says he would have never envisioned this outcome when he was drafted in the second round in 2001.

Cut 12 (09) “…a different way.”

Construction is getting underway on the Donaldsonville campus in the River Parish Community College system, which will be used primarily to train future employees at the Hyundai Steel mill, which is under construction nearby. Chancellor Quintin Taylor says this is the latest in the growth of the system.

Cut 4 (11) “…in Boutte.”

Moderna and Merck have recently announced that a vaccine they’re working on to treat melanoma is showing lasting benefits for patients. In a five-year follow-up of an ongoing clinical trial, those with the high-risk skin cancer who take the vaccine along with Keytruda have lowered their risk of recurrence by half, compared to taking Keytruda alone. Dr. Kyle Holen, the head of development of oncology and therapeutics at Moderna, says the vaccine uses the same mRNA technology as the COVID vaccine.

Cut 9 (11)  “…cells as foreign.”

The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is looking for the person who shot and killed a bald eagle in Vermillion Parish back in early December. The bald eagle is the national bird and a national symbol of the U.S. As such, Sergeant Michael Hebert notes that from coast to coast, it is illegal to shoot one.

Cut 8 (04) “…Eagle Protection Act.”

Legendary Saints Quarterback Drew Brees is headed to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It was officially announced last night.  Brees led the Saints to the franchise’s lone Super Bowl title in the 2009 season. He also set numerous records and his success on the field helped New Orleans recover from Hurricane Katrina…

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Louisiana Tech football coach Sonny Cumbie has a new three contract. Cumbie’s annual salary has been reduced. The money not going to Cumbie will be used to help pay players through revenue sharing deals. Athletics director Ryan Ivey says Cumbie’s contract also allows him to earn more money by hitting certain incentives…

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The reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person that fatally shot a bald eagle in Vermilion Parish on December 5^th has increased to 15-thousand dollars…..

Cut 7 (11) “….receiving”

That’s Sergeant Michael Hebert with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

Construction is getting underway on the fifth campus in the River Parish Community College system – this one in Donaldsonville, in Ascension Parish. Chancellor Quintin Taylor says for the first three to four years after it opens in 2028, the campus will be used specifically to train workers for the new Hyundai Steel mill, until it fills all 13-hundred jobs.

Cut 3 (08) “…in the area.”

Saints legend Drew Brees is the first player in franchise history to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. The formal announcement was made on Thursday night. No one could have predicted that Brees would become one of the most prolific quarterbacks in the NFL history when he was selected in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft…

Cut 12 (12) “…different way.”

Brees became the first quarterback to surpass 80-thousand career passing yards and his 571 touchdown passes are the second most in NFL history. His career completion percentage is the highest in league history.

The fifth-ranked LSU women’s basketball dropped a crucial SEC matchup 77-64 at fourth-ranked Texas last night. In the loss, the Tigers turned the ball over 19 times. With the loss, LSU only has a 9% chance to win at least a share of the regular-season SEC title. The Tigers will wrap up their weeklong road trip on Sunday when they face Auburn at 1 p.m.

There will be four former LSU Tigers playing in Sunday’s Super Bowl. Anthony Bradford is a starting guard for Seattle, and the Patriots have K’Lavon Chaisson, Will Campbell and Kayshon Boutte. Campbell never played for a championship at Neville High School or at LSU. But as a rookie in the NFL, he gets his opportunity after the Patriots used the fourth overall pick to select him.

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The LSU men’s basketball team will host Georgia at 5 p.m. tomorrow.

Louisiana Tech men’s basketball team will host Sam Houston tomorrow at 2 p.m.

UL-Lafayette goes for its fourth straight win tomorrow as the Cajuns host Central Michigan at 3 p.m.

McNeese men’s basketball looks to bounce back from a loss to Stephen F. Austin earlier this week as the Cowboys host Incarnate Word tomorrow at 4 p.m.

You can call Legendary Saints quarterback Drew Brees a Pro Football Hall of Famer. An official announcement was made last night. Brees started his NFL career in San Diego, but he became one of the quarterbacks in the games when he signed with the Saints prior to the 2006 season. Brees gives a lot credit to General Manager Mickey Loomis and Coach Sean Payton…

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The Enshrinement ceremonies will take place in August in Canton, Ohio.

The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is looking for the person who shot a bald eagle to death. Sergeant Michael Hebert says it happened in Erath on December 5th.

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The reward for information leading to the arrest has increased to 15-thousand dollars as the Center for Biological Diversity has added nine-thousand dollars to the six-thousand dollars the U-S Fish Wildlife Service put up.

Another enhanced drunk driving enforcement operation begins today. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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Power has been restored to all 130,000 North and Central Louisiana Entergy Customers who can safely receive it after the widespread damage from the recent ice storm. Entergy says many customers had to have their power restored multiple times as ongoing ice damage continued to cause outages and delay assessments. Rural and heavily wooded areas were hardest hit.

All eyes will be on the U.S. Senate race and the fifth congressional district when qualifying takes place next week. After initially challenging Bill Cassidy for the Senate, Blake Miguez is now running in the fifth district, even though he doesn’t live close to there. LaPolitics-dot-com publisher Jeremy Alford says we’ve seen that before.

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Drew Brees is the first New Orleans Saint in history to be voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. The formal announcement was made last night. Brees acknowledged that no one could have predicted that he would become one of the most prolific quarterbacks in history when he was taken in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft.

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You drink, you drive, you lose – Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over starts today and runs through Mardi Gras, February 17th. Greg Fischer with the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission says Carnival is one of four times a year the state does a Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign, in which it gets federal funding to pay law enforcement officers overtime to look for impaired drivers.

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It’s the biggest return of unclaimed property in Louisiana – more than 400-thousand dollars. State Treasurer John Fleming presented a pair of checks to Shreveport native James Willett earlier this week. He says a family member who had been managing the Willetts’ mineral royalties had passed away a few years ago, and the money ended up going untouched.

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Qualifying for Louisiana’s federal elections will take place next week. Incumbent Bill Cassidy could face three well-known challengers in the Republican U.S. Senate primary — John Fleming, Julia Letlow and Eric Skrmetta. LaPolitics publisher Jeremy Alford says President Trump’s endorsement of Letlow will help with fundraising.

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Legendary Saints quarterback Drew Brees is a Pro Football Hall of Famer. Bress said it was a privilege to play and he was honored.

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He said the honor was still surreal.

State Treasurer John Fleming presented the largest unclaimed property checks in Louisiana history to a Shreveport native and his son Tuesday at a Logansport Chamber of Commerce meeting. It was two checks totaling more than 400 thousand dollars and Fleming said he wanted to present them publicly to increase public awareness of the state’s unclaimed property fun which currently stands at about 1.2 billion dollars.

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He says one in six people in Louisiana has unclaimed property, averaging about 900 dollars

Louisiana Tech and head football coach Sonny Cumbie have agreed on a new three-year contract worth 760-thousand dollars a year. It’s a 155-thousand dollar annual pay cut for Cumbie. Athletic Director Ryan Ivey says 155-thousand dollars will go towards revenue sharing deals with the players, which will help with recruiting efforts and roster retention.

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Ivey says Cumbie could earn more per year if he reaches several different performance-based incentives.

The Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign begins today and runs through Mardi Gras, February 17^th. Greg Fischer with the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission says Carnival is on of four times per year that the state receives federal funding to pay law enforcement overtime to look for impaired drivers.

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Primaries in Louisiana’s federal elections are quickly approaching with qualifying happening next week. President Trump has endorsed State Senator Blake Miguez to represent the 5^th Congressional district though Miguez does not live in the 5^th district. La Politic editor Jeremy Alford says it remains to be seen whether the president’s endorsement can overcome the issue of the Acadiana lawmaker wants to represent a district that’s based in northeast Louisiana and stretches to Baton Rouge.

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Louisiana Tech football coach Sonny Cumbie has agreed to a three-year reconstructed contract. Andre Champagne reports.

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Power has been restored to all 130,000 North and Central Louisiana Entergy Customers who can safely receive it after the widespread damage from the recent ice storms.  Entergy says many customers had to have their power restored multiple times as the ongoing ice damage continued to cause outages and delay assessments. Rural and heavily wooded areas were hardest hit.

Qualifying is next week and the Republican primary for the fifth district congressional race has announced candidates as they look to replace U.S. Senate candidate, Julia Letlow, who currently represents a district that stretches from northeast Louisiana to Baton Rouge. State Senator Blake Miguez is running, though he doesn’t live in the district. LaPolitics publisher Jeremy Alford says we’ve seen this before.

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Legendary Saints quarterback Drew Brees is a Pro Football Hall of Famer. Brees was elected on his first ballot, and says it’s an absolute honor…

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Another enhanced drunk driving enforcement operation begins today. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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State Treasurer John Fleming presented two unclaimed property checks totaling more than $400,000 to Shreveport native James Willett and his son Tuesday – for the largest unclaimed property award in state history. Fleming says he was simply returning their unclaimed property

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