LSU baseball fans are waking up in euphoria over the Tigers come from behind six to five win over Arkansas to advance to the championship series of the College World Series. The Tigers scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth. Two years ago, LSU won in walk-off fashion to reach the title series and Coach Jay Johnson says Déjà vu feels good…
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The championship series against Coastal Carolina will begin Saturday night.
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against CVS for sending a mass text message to its customers on the final day of the legislative session in a lobbying effort against a Pharmacy Benefit Managers bill, which did not pass. Plaintiffs Attorney Jerome Moroux wants to know what information was used by CVS in distributing its message.
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CVS says it did nothing wrong.
The ongoing immigration crackdown has forced the cancellation of a major festival in the state’s largest Hispanic community. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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A deal has been reached to keep the horses running at the Fair Grounds Race track in New Orleans. Churchill Downs, which owns the track, threatened not to have a season later this year, because the state supreme court ruled it could not have historical horse racing machines, because voter approval was required. That meant a 46-percent loss in off-track betting revenue. Details of the agreement are not known, but live racing will take place at the Fairgrounds starting in late November.