The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch until eight tonight. It covers the Alexandria area and nearly all of south Louisiana, including Lake Charles, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, Houma, Slidell and New Orleans. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says be prepared.
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Locally heavy rain and flooding are possible this afternoon for north and central Louisiana.
A high school girls’ basketball game turns ugly. Last week, the mother of a Red River High School player left the stands and verbally assaulted a referee after her daughter was ejected for committing a flagrant foul. LHSAA Director Eddie Bonine says when things get out of control everyone loses.
Congressman Clay Higgins is urging the Trump administration to impose antidumping and countervailing duties on imported shrimp, as well as enforcing stricter testing protocols.. It comes amid concerns about banned antibiotics contained in imported shrimp. Deborah Long with the Southern Shrimp Alliance says Higgins is leading the call for stricter standards.
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Northwestern State is not only attracting new students, but it is keeping the students it currently has. Among first-time freshmen, the school says 89-percent return for their second semester. Enrollment Management Director Van Erikson says one driver of that is small student-to-faculty ratios.
As for overall enrollment, Northwestern State is at just over 77-hundred students.