There’s no LSU game from Saturday to react to on this Labor Day. The Tigers and McNeese State played a handful of snaps, when lightning near the stadium halted the contest. The decision to cancel the game, came just after 10:30 after the teams waited nearly four hours for the lightning to stop. Coach Les Miles says there was no sense in trying to resume the game at around midnight…:
Cut 14 (10) “in the morning”
LSU says ticket refund information will be available by Wednesday.
Franklin Parish is mourning 16-year-old Tyrell Cameron who died apparently from a broken neck when playing football Friday night. Matt Reynolds is the play-by-play man for the Franklin Parish Patriots. He says this was Cameron’s first varsity game as a starter and his teammates loved him…:
CUT 18 (08) “brought laughter”
Cameron was rushed to a hospital but died shortly after the fatal hit.
To conclude our series of questions to the gubernatorial candidates, we asked them how they would work with state agencies to reduce the number of sexually transmitted diseases. Senator David Vitter says education is a must…:
CUT 7 (09) “early grades”
Louisiana has some of the highest STD rates in the country. Republican Scott Angelle believes parents need to talk to their kids early on about the birds and the bees in addition to sex ed in classrooms…:
CUT 8 (09) “our educators”
Louisiana’s gubernatorial primary is October 24th.
Damage from feral hogs cost Louisiana farmers an estimated 74-million dollars in 2013. That’s according to research conducted by LSU AgCenter Economist Shaun Tanger, who says the hogs caused 53-million in damage to Louisiana crops…:
cut 11 (08) “non-production losses”