Tomorrow marks the ten year anniversary of Hurricane Rita making landfall in Louisiana. Cameron Parish was the hardest hit area from the storm with farmland and pastures inundated with saltwater and numerous homes flooded or washed away. Kevin Savoie, LSU AgCenter agent in Cameron Parish, says recovery has been slow over the past decade, but there are positive signs…:
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He says 10 years later, the biggest issue is getting people to move back to the Parish.

It’s the first day of fall and State Climatologist Barry Keim says we’ll see temps in the 80s over the next few days, but the cool air won’t last long…:
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Louisiana Tech says they’ve reached the university’s highest enrollment it’s ever had. Nearly 12000 students are enrolled in the fall quarter which is 10 percent higher than last year. Tech spokesman Dave Guerin says a big key to the record enrollment is that 81-percent of first-time, full-time freshman in 2014 are back at Tech this year…:
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The school reported earlier this year that’s graduation rate went up four-percent to 54-percent, the second highest among all public universities.

Saints Coach Sean Payton told reporters on a teleconference this morning that Quarterback Drew Brees is day-to-day. Payton would not elaborate anymore on Brees’ injured rotator cuff. If Brees can’t play this Sunday against Carolina, Luke McCown would get the start. Payton said he won’t talk about hypothetical situations. Brees is talking this afternoon.