Governor Landry reportedly had influence in Scott Woodward’s decision to fire Brian Kelly as LSU’s head football coach. Jeremy Alford, the publisher of LaPolitics-dot-com, says it’s not that unusual for governors to be involved to some degree in their respective states’ football programs.
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Bookies-dot-com writer Christopher Boan says Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin as the betting favorite to be the next head coach of the LSU Tigers but Tulane Coach Jon Sumrall is also a likely candidate. And he says although Louisville coach Jeff Brohm and Arizona State’s Kenny Dillingham are having success at their alma maters.
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Now that Julie Emerson has become the fifth prominent candidate to enter the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, how will the race change? ULM Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says given the number of challengers he’s facing, Bill Cassidy has almost no chance of securing a majority of the vote in the primary, but he’s all but guaranteed to finish in the top two.
State Police have arrested a 21-year-old Monroe man for allegedly staging multiple car crashes and collecting thousands of dollars in fraudulent insurance claims. Senior Trooper Ryan Davis as they investigated reports of fraud from the Department of Insurance, authorities learned that Adrian Simpson had planned, staged and orchestrated crashes to file fraudulent insurance claims.
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Davis says Sampson potentially gained 156-thousand dollars from the victims.