While the Republicans are dominating the airwaves in Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race, there’s also a runoff on the Democratic side. Here’s Andrew Greenstein.

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After hours of scanning the New Orleans Lakeshore area on Sunday for a 30-40 year old Hispanic man who was reported missing yesterday afternoon, a spokesperson for the Coast Guard said most crews suspended their search for the night around eleven last night.  New Orleans police received the report of a drowning near the 1800 block of Lakeshore Drive just after three yesterday afternoon. We’re told the search will resume this morning.

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The latest Kids Count Data Book shows that Louisiana still has plenty of room for improvement when it comes to the well-being of its children. The 2026 report ranks Louisiana 48th overall. Theresa Falgoust (FAAL-goo), the chief data and impact officer for the Agenda for Children, says that includes an economic well-being ranking that’s dead last in the country.

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The University of New Orleans is switching gears as it prepares to transition to the LSU system on July 1st. Interim Chancellor Jeanette Weiland says the university wouldn’t have survived without the 20-million-dollar cash infusion from the state of Louisiana, but now they’re back in the black and looking ahead.

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Weiland is setting the institution’s fall enrollment goal at six thousand students.