A former mayor of New Orleans is remembering a civil rights giant who died this week. Dr. Norman C. Francis passed away yesterday at the age of 94. Former Mayor Mitch Landrieu says right from the outset of his nearly half-century tenure as president of Xavier University, his actions were transformative in the fight for civil rights in the South in the 1960s.

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A new documentary on the SEC Network spotlights legendary LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux and how she built the program from the ground up. Breaux says the athletics department was not always on her side, but it finally gave her the support she needed when Skip Bertman took over the department in 2001.

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A 16-year-old is facing an attempted second-degree murder charge for allegedly shooting a 14-year-old along a Lake Charles Mardi Gras parade route Tuesday night. Jeff Palermo has the story.

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Now that Mardi Gras is over, what do you do with all those beads that you collected this year? Whatever you do, don’t throw them away! Lafayette is among the communities offering bead recycling programs. In Lafayette, you can drop your beads off at a collection box. They’re then cleaned, sanitized and packaged for resale.