The Louisiana Oil and Gas Association is hailing a couple of significant wins in this year’s legislative session. Colleen Crain reports.

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The LSU baseball team did not win last night, but they did not lose either. Their College World Series game against UCLA was suspended after the third inning because of severe weather with LSU leading five to three. The game will resume at 10 AM with UCLA trailing by two in the top of the fourth inning.

Legislation approved in the regular session will result in the Department of Children and Family Services no longer administering the food stamp program. Slidell Representative Stephanie Berault says that responsibility will shift to the Louisiana Workforce Commission and the state department of health. Berault says that’s because there’s an 80-percent overlap between Medicaid and SNAP benefits…

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Berault says this also allows DCFS to focus more on child welfare cases.

Last fall LSU had the largest incoming class in the school’s history, with nearly eight-thousand first-year students. LSU interim president Matt Lee gives credit to the faculty and staff on the Baton Rouge campus for helping to attract students…

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Elsewhere in the system, LSU Alexandria’s enrollment has reached an all-time high and LSU Shreveport is also breaking enrollment records.