The president of Ascension Parish is hailing the upcoming arrival of Hyundai’s first North American steel mill. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Former LSU football coach Les Miles’ effort to get 37-wins restored to his coaching record is not going well. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Seafood festival organizers are taking a more proactive approach amid a new state law that requires restaurants and vendors to clearly indicate whether the seafood they sell is imported. Last weekend, a vendor at the Louisiana Crawfish Festival in Chalmette was caught selling crawfish imported from China without a sign at the booth indicating so. When it was brought to organizers’ attention, they quickly rectified it by giving the vendor a sign to display. Organizer Cisco Gonzales says it’s possible that it was an honest oversight by a vendor who didn’t know about the new law.
Gonzales says he’s going to push for the Crawfish Festival to require that only Louisiana-harvested crawfish can be sold from now on.
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Last year, before the new law went into effect, genetic testing at the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival in Morgan City found that 80-percent of shrimp being sold at that festival that was marketed as local was in fact imported. Gonzales says selling imported seafood at an event that’s supposed to celebrate the state’s vibrant seafood industry is completely counterproductive.
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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents have cited an Abbeville man for allegedly killing a black bear in Vermilion Parish. Corporal Derek Logan says 50-year-old Shannon Parker shot the 10-year-old female weighing 200 pounds.
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Parker admitted to shooting at a dark silhouette, mistakenly believing it was a wild hog. Logan says Parker also lacked written permission to hunt at night and failed to notify the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office.
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Parker faces fines up to $950, jail time up to 120 days, and $10,000 in civil restitution. Logan urges hunters to identify what they’re shooting before they shoot.
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The president of Ascension Parish is hailing the upcoming construction of Hyundai’s new steel mill. President Clint Cointment (QUINT-maw) says the new 5.8-billion-dollar steel mill will have a huge impact on the entire region.
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Cointment says the new steel mill will create 14-hundred direct jobs and more than four-thousand indirect jobs, benefitting many other companies in the region as well.
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The announcement of Hyundai building a steel mill in Ascension Parish is the latest in a string of major economic projects coming to Louisiana, and Cointment says the state is just getting started,
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The LSU women’s basketball team looked like one of the best teams in the nation last night as they outscored Florida State 31-6 in the third quarter as they blew out the Seminoles 101-71 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Mikaylah Williams led the way with 28 points. The Bossier City native says it was great team basketball…
LSU led by just one point at halftime, but exploded in the third quarter, outscoring the Seminoles by 25 points. Flau’Jae Johnson says she’s never been a part of a run like that…
LSU shot 56-percent from the floor and had 29 assists for the game. Senior guard Last-Tear Poa says they are playing their best basketball at the right time…
Up next for LSU, they will play North Carolina State on Friday night in Spokane, Washington.