Sources say LSU will remove the interim tag from Verge Ausberry and the New Iberia native will be the permanent athletics director at LSU. Jeanne Burns has more

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The Louisiana Health Department announces SNAP benefit distribution will resume Friday. This comes after some SNAP recipients saw their food stamps removed from their E-B-T cards after receiving them over the weekend. It’s because the state-funded program was suspended as USDA will now partially fund the program as a result of a court order.

A 46-year-old preschool teacher has received the Slidell Police Department’s Citizen Award for helping officers catch a suspected shoplifter. Police Chief Daniel Seuzeneau says Lesli Smith offered a ride to Sergeant Jeff Kahrs after the suspect fled a department store in a getaway car…

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When Officer Kahrs jumped into the vehicle he radioed to other patrol units the whereabouts of the suspect’s vehicle and it resulted in the arrest of two people.

Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican supermajority in the state senate. Shreveport-based political analyst Scott Hughes…

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It will mark the first time in 13 years in which Republicans will not have at least a two-thirds majority in the Mississippi state senate.