All eyes are on the $1.6 billion jackpot for tonight’s Mega Millions drawing after no grand prize winning ticket was sold for Friday’s drawing. Louisiana Lottery spokesperson Kimberly Chopin says the current multi-state game’s jackpot is a record setter.
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Mega Millions has been available to Louisiana lottery players since 2012 and a winning ticket for the grand prize has never been sold in this state.

Early voting gets underway today and there is an item on the ballot that asks voters if fantasy sports betting involving websites like DraftKings and Fan Duel should be legal. Public Affairs Research Council President Robert Travis Scott….
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If approved by parishes, legislators will have to approve a mechanism for taxing the activity when they return for the regular session in April.

LSU senior associate athletic director Robert Munson says discussions with the SEC regarding Devin White’s first half-suspension for the Alabama game were amicable, but the suspension stands. So White will miss the first half of the Alabama game for his targeting hit on Mississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald. There is a Go Fund Me page seeking money to pay for billboard space in downtown Birmingham, the home of the SEC offices. The billboard would read hashtag Free Devin White.

Big news for Avery Island as the birthplace of Tabasco pepper sauce has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. McIlhenny Company CEO Tony Simmons says his family settled the land in 1818 and attracts about 100-thousand vistors a year….
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Avery Island features 52 state-registered archaeological sites.