It’s a day to be weather aware as there’s an enhanced risk for severe storms for most of the state. All modes and hazards of severe weather are possible, including tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds. LSU public health climatologist Barry Keim says heavy rainfall is also possible…
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The family of a 73-year-old immigrant who was taken into custody in Lafayette is pleading for his release. Jose Francisco Garcia Rodriquez’s stepdaughter Christian Cooper Riggs says Rodriguez tried to become an official citizen for the last ten years, but because he committed a crime in the first couple of years after he arrived in the U.S., he’s been unsuccessful. She says for the last 43 years her stepfather has been a model immigrant
ULM students approved a 75-dollar per semester fee in a 711 to 650 vote. The extra 600-thousand dollars the fee is expected to generate in its first year is going to the athletic department. ULM Athletic Director John Hartwell…
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Hartwell says they also plan to install a video board in Fant-Ewing Coliseum.
LSU baseball won its seventh straight last night as the Tigers defeated Oklahoma ten to two. West Monroe’s Josh Pearson hit two solo home runs.
There were a few walk-off victories….Sebastian Mexico hit a two-out, two run homer as Louisiana Tech beat F-I-U five to three to stay in first place in Conference USA.
Samuel Stephenson scored on a wild pitch in the ninth inning to give Northwestern State a seven to six win over UTRGV.
And Southern beat Grambling 15 to 14 in ten innings. KJ White hit a walk-off single.