LSU alum and Baton Rouge native Scott Woodward is no longer the athletics director at LSU after Governor Landry said he did not want Woodward to hire the next football coach. It was announced on Thursday night that Woodward and the LSU Board of Supervisors mutually agreed to party ways. LSU Board of Supervisors member John Carmouche denies that Landry had anything to do with Woodward’s departure…
Woodward still had three years left on his contract and LSU owes him six million dollars.
New Iberia native and longtime athletic administrator Verge Ausberry has been named interim athletics director at LSU. Ausberry says his main priority is to find the best football coach that LSU can hire. He’s forming a committee that includes members of the LSU Board of Supervisors and major donors to the athletic program.
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Big news for Louisiana soybean farmers as China has agreed to buy 12-million metric tons of U.S. soybeans between now and January. That number is down more than ten-million metric tons after China stopped buying U.S. soybeans amid a months-long tariff battle. Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain says the U.S. is the second-biggest producer of soybeans in the world.
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If you’re a book fan and looking for something to do today, the Louisiana Book Festival is happening in Baton Rouge. Robert Wilson, the executive director for the Louisiana Center for the Book, says there’s one building that’s usually a part of the festival that won’t be this year.
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The book fair opened at nine and runs till four today at the State Library and the surrounding Capitol Park area.