As we honor veterans today, the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs says COVID has presented challenges to several observations in 2020. Veterans Secretary Colonel Joey Strickland says ceremonies that are normally held at VA homes are closed to the public this year.

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Strickland says several schools are holding ceremonies across the state to honor vets and in Bossier City today a Women’s Veterans statue is being dedicated.

Governor John Bel Edwards announced a more than $3-million agreement with LSU-Shreveport and LED to advance students’ careers in technology at the Cyber Collaboratory. The LSUS technology agreement is the latest in a series of milestones along the I-20 Cyber Corridor. Edwards says when he visits the Nation’s Capital, leaders are impressed.

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A COVID outbreak on the LSU football team has led to the postponement and possible cancellation of this weekend’s contest in Tiger Stadium against Alabama. Matt Doyle has the story.

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58-year old Gregory Alan Smith a Shreveport investment adviser was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison for his part in a $3.5 million fraud in which customers invested money with Texas megachurch minister, Kirbyjon Caldwell who had counseled two presidents. Caldwell advised former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Smith and Caldwell were ordered to pay nearly $3.6 million in restitution and a $100,000 fine.

Hurricane Zeta devastated citrus crops and nurseries in southeast Louisiana. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Mayor Latoya Cantrell announced that the City of New Orleans will enter Phase 3.3 Nov. 11
The biggest changes include larger capacities for indoor and outdoor gatherings and indoor seating for bars.
Indoor gatherings can now include up to 100 people. The city stressed that the venue must be large enough to allow for people to be six feet apart.
Outdoor gatherings can now increase to 150 people.

As we honor veterans this veteran’s day, the Louisiana Department of Veterans’ Affairs says COVID has presented challenges to several observations in 2020. Veterans Secretary Colonel Joey Strickland says the department works with several organizations whose sole focus is to place veterans in the workforce and now there is a new program to help vets become business owners.
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Governor John Bel Edwards announced a major technology agreement in northwest Louisiana Tuesday at LSU-Shreveport. The more than $3-million agreement with the university and LED will help advance students’ careers in technology at the Cyber Collaboratory.
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Hurricane Zeta did a lot of damage to citrus crops and nurseries in southeast Louisiana, the most hurricane damage suffered in the area since Katrina in 2005.
LSU Ag Center Horticultural Agent Joe Willis says growers lost 75 to 90 percent of the fruit in impacted areas. The worst damage was in the poinsettia crops. Willis says 95 percent of the holiday staple crop was lost in southeast Louisiana.
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As we honor veterans this veteran’s day, the Louisiana Department of Veterans’ Affairs says COVID has presented challenges to several observations in 2020. Veterans Secretary Colonel Joey Strickland says helping veterans during the pandemic has been a challenge.
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Governor John Bel Edwards announced a major technology agreement in northwest Louisiana Tuesday at LSU-Shreveport. The more than $3-million agreement with the university and LED will help advance students’ careers in technology.
The LSU-S technology agreement is the latest in a series of milestones along the I-20 Cyber Corridor. Edwards says when he visits the Nation’s Capital, leaders are impressed with growing advancements.
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Saturday’s LSU-Bama game in Baton Rouge has been postponed due to a COVID outbreak on LSU’s team.
CBS Sports National College Football Writer Dennis Dodd says
Rescheduling the game will be tough considering LSU already had to flex their Florida game into a later season bye-week. It’s a blow to the local economy and Dodd says it’s yet another blow to the program’s finances…
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Veterans Day this year has prompted some ceremonies to be altered due to the pandemic, but it’s still important to honor the tradition. Brooke Thorington has more
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Hurricane Zeta did a lot of damage to citrus crops and nurseries in southeast Louisiana, the most hurricane damage suffered in the area since Katrina in 2005.
LSU Ag Center Horticultural Agent Joe Willis says the late timing of the storm was brutal for vegetable farmers who had already transitioned to their fall crops. He says the damage is less than for the fruits, only about half were lost.
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Governor John Bel Edwards announced a major technology agreement in northwest Louisiana Tuesday at LSU-Shreveport. The more than $3-million agreement with the university and LED will help advance students’ careers in technology.
Edwards says LSU-S is the fastest-growing higher education campus in the state and the new Cyber Collaboratory will only continue to attract new students.
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Saturday’s LSU-Bama game in Baton Rouge has been postponed due to a COVID outbreak on LSU’s team.
CBS Sports National College Football Writer Dennis Dodd says it’s not a surprise that we would lose a game of this magnitude because despite team’s best mitigation efforts these college players aren’t living in a bubble…
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Hurricane Zeta devastated citrus crops and nurseries in southeast Louisiana. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Mayor Latoya Cantrell announced that the City of New Orleans will enter Phase 3.3 Nov. 11
The biggest changes include larger capacities for indoor and outdoor gatherings and indoor seating for bars.
Indoor gatherings can now include up to 100 people. The city stressed that the venue must be large enough to allow for people to be six feet apart.
Outdoor gatherings can now increase to 150 people.

As we honor veterans this veteran’s day, the Louisiana Department of Veterans’ Affairs says COVID has presented challenges to several observations in 2020. Veterans Secretary Colonel Joey Strickland says the department works with several organizations whose sole focus is to place veterans in the workforce and now there is a new program to help vets become business owners.
Cut 8 (08)…or website”

Governor John Bel Edwards announced a major technology agreement in northwest Louisiana Tuesday at LSU-Shreveport. The more than $3-million agreement with the university and LED will help advance students’ careers in technology at the Cyber Collaboratory.
Cut 10 (10) “…breathtaking.”

Hurricane Zeta did a lot of damage to citrus crops and nurseries in southeast Louisiana, the most hurricane damage suffered in the area since Katrina in 2005.
LSU Ag Center Horticultural Agent Joe Willis says growers lost 75 to 90 percent of the fruit in impacted areas.
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As we honor veterans this veteran’s day, the Louisiana Department of Veterans’ Affairs says COVID has presented challenges to several observations in 2020. Veterans Secretary Colonel Joey Strickland says ceremonies that are normally held at VA homes are closed to the public this year.
Cut 7 (08) “…general public.”

A COVID outbreak on the LSU football team has led to the postponement and possible cancellation of this weekend’s contest in Tiger Stadium against Alabama. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Saturday’s LSU-Alabama game has been postponed, after a COVID-19 outbreak among the Bayou Bengals football team. It remains to be seen if the game can still be played this season since the Tigers do not have another off week before the SEC Championship game on December 19th.

The Republican Attorneys General Association, headed by Louisiana AG Jeff Landry, asks the US Supreme Court to declare many Pennsylvania mail-in ballots illegal. Matt Doyle has the story.

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The state health department reported 13-hundred new coronavirus cases today bringing the state’s total to nearly 190 thousand. Governor John Bel Edwards says we’ll eventually get past the pandemic and Pfizer’s announcement of a 90-percent effective rate of their vaccine is good news. But the governor says it will be sometime before we see results…

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Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul is confident they’ll find out what exactly happened on Saturday night when three of his officers had an encounter with freshman LSU wide receiver Koy Moore. Moore says he was harassed and violated by the cops. Paul says the law enforcement bill of rights gives the three officers, who have been placed on leave, 30 days to hire an attorney…

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The state health department reported 13-hundred new coronavirus cases today bringing the state’s total to nearly 190-thousand. Governor John Bel Edwards says the number of COVID patients hospitalized also increased by 32 and the positivity rate on tests is also going up…

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The total number of COVID-19 patients in the hospital is 684 and that’s up from 596 on November first.

One of several deployment ceremonies for the 256^th Brigade of the Louisiana National Guard was held in Lafayette today. Approximately 2,000 soldiers are involved in the yearlong Middle East mission in the fight against ISIS. General Keith Waddell of the Louisiana National Guard says guardsmen have been extremely busy this year, assisting with pandemic response and hurricane recovery.

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The Republican Attorneys General Association, headed by Louisiana AG Jeff Landry, asks the US Supreme Court to declare many Pennsylvania mail-in ballots illegal. Matt Doyle has the story.

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In St Mary Parish the family of a 15-year-old boy Quawan Charles who was found dead near Loreauville in a sugarcane field wants answers to the cause of the teen’s death. The family says they were told Charles drowned and now they’re working for an independent autopsy. The family reported Charles missing on Friday, Oct. 30 in Baldwin. His body was found on November 3^rd by a law enforcement drone.

The 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Louisiana National Guard is shipping out this week for a nearly year-long deployment to the Middle East. About 2,000 soldiers are involved in the mission. Col. Scott says because of the pandemic the departure ceremonies will be closed to soldiers only. Friends and family are encouraged to either watch online or…

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Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul is confident they’ll find out what exactly happened on Saturday night when three of his officers had an encounter with freshman LSU wide receiver Koy Moore. Moore says he was harassed and violated by the cops. Paul says the law enforcement bill of rights gives the three officers, who have been placed on leave, 30 days to hire an attorney…

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A “furious” New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell blasts organizer of a Christian concert held in the French Quarter, involving one of Lafayette’s favorite daughters…

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Grammy-award winning trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and his business partner, Ronald Markham pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy in their corruption case in which they allegedly transferred more than $1 million in public library donations to their jazz orchestra. Today’s arraignment came after numerous delays in the criminal trial and several more due to the pandemic closure of courts. Both were indicted December of 2017.

Extreme southeast Louisiana is in the cone of uncertainty for Tropical Storm Eta which is meandering off the coast of western Cuba, State Climatologist Barry Keim
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Keim says Eta will drift north over the week and the National Hurricane Center forecast has the storm making landfall in the Florida panhandle this weekend as a depression.

Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul is confident they’ll find out what exactly happened on Saturday night when three of his officers had an encounter with freshman LSU wide receiver Koy Moore. Moore says he was harassed and violated by the cops who assumed he had a gun and drugs. Paul says their internal affairs investigators are leading the probe.

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The 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Louisiana National Guard is shipping out this week for a nearly year-long deployment to the Middle East. About 2,000 soldiers are involved in the mission. Col. Scott Desormeaux says the mission will be the continued fight against ISIS as well as the transfer of obligations for the fight against ISIS in Iraq.

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It’s their third overseas deployment since 9/11.

23-year-old Holden Matthews was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison on state charges for the arson of three historically black churches in St. Landry Parish in 2019. He was already sentenced to 25 years on federal charges. State Fire Marshal Butch Browning says a silver lining of the crime was how the community united and…

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