House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Metairie told Chuck Todd of NBC’s Meet the Press that he opposes new gun control legislation. Scalise was seriously wounded last June when a gunman opened fire on group of lawmakers getting ready for a charity baseball game. Scalise says there are already limits on gun ownership and believes those laws need to be enforced.

LSU football team blocked all of the negativity surrounding the program to get a much needed win on Saturday as the Tigers knocked off the Florida Gators 17-16. Head Coach Ed Orgeron says his team grew closer during a difficult week of criticism….
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The Tigers have a big game coming up on Saturday as the Bayou Bengals host Auburn University.

With the decline in diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba, any hope of exporting Louisiana goods is shrinking. State Agricultural Commissioner Mike Strain says working on the issues between the two nations is of top priority…:
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Strain says if the trade embargo with Cuba is lifted it could mean millions of dollars for the state and the ag industry.

Former Governor Buddy Roemer has released a memoir through University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press called Scopena a Memoir of Home. It tells the story of his childhood and growing up on a on a cotton plantation in Bossier Parish. Roemer says his father gave he and his siblings great guidance during the Civil Rights Movement….
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Roemer served as Louisiana’s governor from 1988 to 1992.