The state reported 1,016 new coronavirus cases and 23 more COVID-19 deaths today. Hospitalizations also increased by 31 to surpass for 14-hundred. Louisiana Treasurer John Schroder has been released from the hospital as he’s battling complications from COVID-19.

Voters soundly rejected a constitutional amendment Saturday that would have allowed out-of-state residents to sit on college management boards. Matt Doyle has more.
Cut 1 (28) “ …I’m Matt Doyle.”

DOTD has created visual displays of trash they’ve collected from roadways across the state as a reminder to Keep Louisiana beautiful. DOTD spokesperson Rodney Mallet says the six-foot-tall 3-D letters spell out D-O-T-D and are filled with trash…
cut 9 (10) “…a year”
Mallett says that nine million dollars could be used to overlay about 90 miles of roadway instead.

ULM has reportedly fired football coach Matt Viator with two years left on his contract that pays him about 350-thousand dollars a year. The Warhawks have lost eleven in a row. ULM has had just one winning season since 1994. KNOE-TV sports director Aaron Dietrich says it’s been difficult to build a winner at ULM…
cut 5 (12) “….head coach”