LHSAA Director Eddie Bonine is calling on fans and parents at high school games to control their emotions. Jeff Palermo has the story..
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Congressman Clay Higgins is asking President Trump to levy tariffs up to 100-percent on foreign seafood imports. Sean Richardson has more.
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Northwestern State is not only attracting new students, but it is keeping the students it currently has.
Van Erikson, the director of enrollment management at Northwestern State, says among first-time freshmen, 89-percent return for their second semester. Erikson says one driver of that is small student-to-faculty ratios.
As for overall enrollment, Northwestern State is at just over 77-hundred students, both undergraduate and graduate. Erikson says while Northwestern State will never grow to the size of LSU, they’re still looking to increase enrollment.
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Erikson says the school would ultimately like to grow to somewhere between nine-thousand and 95-hundred students.
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The Louisiana High School Athletic Association is urging parents to keep their cool in the stands. They are telling parents to simmer down or sit down. LHSAA Director Eddie Bonine says kids look to adults to set the tone…
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The LHSAA is investigating an ugly incident at a girls’ basketball game in northwest Louisiana last week. A mother of a Red River High School girls basketball player left the stands and verbally assaulted a referee after her daughter was ejected for committing a flagrant foul. Bonine says our student-athletes deserve better…
The referee may seek charges against the woman confronted him and Red River Coach Dadrian Harris is concerned the incident could result in a postseason ban. Bonine says when things get out of control everyone loses…
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Locally heavy rain and flooding is possible this afternoon for north and central Louisiana this afternoon. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says Monroe, Jena and Winnsboro could see the some of the highest rainfall totals…
The National Weather Service has also issued a tornado watch until 8 PM tonight. It covers the Alexandria area and nearly all of south Louisiana including, Lake Charles, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, Houma, Slidell and New Orleans. Keim says be prepared…
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LRN Meteorologist Bill Jacquemin says a cold front is colliding with warm air, which is raising the threat for severe weather…
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Congressman Clay Higgins sent a letter to President Trump advocating for tariffs and stronger trade enforcement on seafood imports from China, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Deborah Long with the Southern Shrimp Alliance says the U-S shrimp industry is facing a financial crisis because of cheap imports
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There is a concern about banned antibiotics contained in imported shrimp. Higgins urged the administration to impose antidumping and countervailing duties, and enforce stricter testing protocols. Long says Higgins is leading the call for stricter standards.
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Long says that compared to the E-U where all shipments are tested before being shipped and 50-percent are tested again when delivered, the U-S tests less than percent of imported seafood.