LSU President William Tate has found a new job and will leave as the president of the LSU system and chancellor of the Baton Rouge campus on June 30th. Tate has been named the new president at Rutgers University. Tate has been at LSU since 2021. During his four years as president, LSU enrollment has grown and its research work has increased.
The number of people who say Louisiana is heading in the right direction is on the rise. That’s one of the findings in LSU’s annual Louisiana Survey. It shows that the percentage of those who say the state is headed in the right direction and that of those who say the state is headed in the wrong direction is now split 50-50. Two years ago, it was about two-to-one in favor of those who said the state is headed in the wrong direction. Survey Director Michael Henderson says that’s when the U-turn started.
Louisiana ranks 11th in the country for lightning deaths. That’s according to a new study from CDC which looked at data from 2006 through 2021. During that time, Louisiana had 12 deaths. Florida had the most with 79. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim on why so many more lightning deaths in the Sunshine State…
Lightning struck twice for the Teurlings Catholic High School Baseball as they won their second consecutive state championship on Saturday and tenth overall in school history. Rebels head coach Brooks Badeaux says it was not easy to defend their Division Two select title…
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Sam Houston, North DeSoto, Catholic High of New Iberia and Sterlington also won high school baseball titles on Saturday.