The College World Series Champion LSU Tigers were welcomed home by the home crowd yesterday. Kace Kieschnick has more…
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Tonight the team will be honored with a celebration at Alex Box Stadium that’s set to begin a 7:30. Gates open at 6:30.

Most of the state is under an excessive heat warning today. That means heat indices possibly getting over 115-degrees. The dangerous heat is expected to continue through the remainder of the week.

Lumen Technologies is donating its local facilities campus to the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Lumen is moving more to hybrid and remote work, leaving the two buildings largely unused. ULM President Dr. Ronald Berry says Lumen (originally known as CenturyTel) approached them about the 800-thousand-square-foot facility…:
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Lumen says they’ve had a long partnership with ULM and donating the facility building seemed like the right thing to do.

The 2020 hurricanes did financial damage to the state’s saltwater finfish, oyster and shrimping industries and the federal government has finally announced they will provide financial relief. State Wildlife Fisheries biologist Jason Froeba says after the storms, LDWF and the LSU Ag Center put together a report on estimated damages and NOAA has a 35-percent loss requirement to be eligible….
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It still has to be decided how much financial aid will be handed out.