New Orleans po-boy shop owner Mike Serio will attend his 500th consecutive LSU game on Saturday night. Colleen Crain has more…
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Along with the fentanyl crisis, there’s a growing number of overdoses linked to nitazines. Brooke Thorington has more on this deadly synthetic opioid.
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Saturday is Election Day and voters will decide on candidates for three vacant statewide offices including Secretary of State. We talked to both candidates competing for the office. Teiko Foxx has more…
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Election Day is this Saturday. Three statewide elections, four constitutional amendments, several legislative races and other local races will be decided. Joel Watson with the Secretary of State’s office says they provide sample ballots…
Fortunately, most people are able to vote without any issues. When there are problems, Watson says the Secretary of State’s office and other officials can help…
While you exercise your right to vote, Watson says you can dedicate that vote to someone who has served to ensure your right…
Go to SOS.LA.GOV and search Honor Vets Vote to let the Secretary of State’s office know the name of the veteran you want to honor.
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New Orleans po boy shop owner Mike Serio is the iron man of LSU fans as he’ll attend his 500th consecutive game tomorrow night when the Tigers host Georgia State. His incredible streak started in 1983 and there have been some close calls. In 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, Serio had to scramble after LSU’s home game against Arizona State was shifted to Tempe…
During the 2020 COVID season, Serio watched the LSU-Vanderbilt game from a parking lot in Nashville. He also had to quickly pivot in 2021, when LSU’s game against Missouri was moved to Columbia because of a hurricane.
Not only does Serio go to every game, but he stays until the end, except for one game during a dark time for LSU football, the Curly Hallman years…
Serio says his favorite trip in the SEC is Kentucky. He says LSU’s game at Washington was cool in 2009, but his favorite trip was to Green Bay in 2016…
The 72-year-old Serio doesn’t expect missing a game anytime soon and is looking forward to next year’s season opener in Las Vegas.
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Nitazines, a synthetic opioid, are being linked to a growing number of overdose deaths, and St. Tammany Parish Coroner Dr. Charles Preston says their potency is alarming…
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In the last few years, the use of nitazines has spiked in Louisiana and other parts of the country. But Preston says it’s hard to know just how many are linked to the drug that’s being created in illicit laboratories…
Preston says if they suspect someone has died from an overdose, but the toxicology is negative the case is sent to the DEA for further investigation for confirmation.
He says fentanyl test strips do not detect nitazines and if you do consume it, it could take multiple doses of Narcan to be revived.
Preston says nitazines were developed in the 1950s but never received FDA approval because they can stop you from breathing.
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On the ballot, this Saturday is a runoff for Secretary of State between two women, Republican Nancy Landry and Democrat Gwen Collins-Greenup. Landry has served three terms as State Representative for Lafayette and Vermillion Parishes. Landry says serving as the First Assistant Secretary of State makes her the only candidate with experience running a statewide election…
Landry says if elected she plans to use federal and state dollars in new voting machines that produce a paper copy for voters.
Her opposition is the former clerk of court in East Feliciana Parish, Gwen Collins-Greenup. Collins-Greenup says her experience encompasses many dimensions as she’s also an attorney and an accountant. The Democrat says her first priority is replacing old voting machines and upgrading voter registration databases.
Collins-Greenup says she wants to modernize business services, streamline the business filing process, expand business resources, and combat business identity theft. She plans to improve voter access and voter participation…
On Saturday’s ballot, voters will also elect a new Attorney General and Treasurer. Voting polls open at 7 am and close at 8 pm.
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Saturday night’s matchup between 15th-ranked LSU and Georgia State is not a marque matchup on the college football schedule. But Heisman voters will be paying attention to quarterback Jayden Daniels’ performance. Tigers Coach Brian Kelly says Daniels has had little trouble with the increased media coverage that has been associated with his Heisman campaign
Daniels’ main competition for the Heisman is Oregon’s Bo Nix or Washington’s Michael Penix Jr, who have similar numbers and better records, Kelly says some of Daniels’ best qualities can’t be measured by statistics or records.
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Louisiana Tech will close out the season tomorrow when they face Jacksonville State. The Gamecocks are 7-and-3 and have one of the best defenses in Conference USA. Bulldogs Coach Sonny Cumbie is impressed with their pass rush…
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Tech has lost five in a row and they have just three wins on the season. Cumbie says a victory on Saturday would be big…