A Louisiana Tech student has been accused of driving drunk and killing a 21-year-old man from Sterlington. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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New Orleans is about to get a huge economic boost with a trio of Taylor Swift concerts in the Superdome. Dr. Diego Bufquin (BUFF-quin), the director of the hospitality unit at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business, says Swift’s concerts will bring as much as 300-million dollars to the city.
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A federal judge in Baton Rouge heard arguments yesterday over the state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in all public-school classrooms. The hearing included testimony from Steven K. Green of Willamette University, who the plaintiffs called an expert witness. Attorney General Liz Murrill argued that Green failed to prove that the posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms violates the First Amendment and that his testimony be excluded.
A genealogist has identified the remains of five enslaved people who are buried on the grounds of a proposed plastics facility in St. James Parish. The plant would be on the site of a former plantation owned by Benjamin Winchester. Lenora Gobert (go-BEAR) says the five people were between the ages of nine and 31 when they died.