Hundreds of LSU fans endured the summer heat and welcomed home the national champion the Tigers baseball team yesterday after winning the program’s seventh national championship in Omaha. The 2023 squad goes down as one of the greatest in LSU history…
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Fans will head to Alex Box Stadium again tonight for a more formal celebration at 7:30.

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…
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It still has to be decided how much financial aid will be handed out.

Ochsner Hospital for Children in New Orleans has been recognized as the number one kid’s hospital in Louisiana by U.S. News & World Report for the third consecutive year. System Chair of Pediatrics Dr. William Lennarz says Ochsner is committed to providing top-quality care for kids across the Gulf South.
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Pediatric cardiology and heart surgery and pediatric orthopedics programs are named among the nation’s best.

Lumen Technologies has donated two of its campus buildings, totaling over 800-thousand square feet, to the University of Louisiana Monroe. It’s considered the largest donation in the university’s history. ULM President Ron Berry says the university will seek to recruit local and regional firms to move into the former Lumen Technologies Center for Excellence…:
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The mixed-use commercial facility will be renamed for CenturyTel founder and Monroe benefactor Clarke Williams