The last two teams left standing in the College World Series, LSU and Coastal Carolina, begin their championship series tonight. Jeff Palermo has a preview…
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A three-judge panel at the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a lower court’s ruling that Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is unconstitutional. Attorney General Liz Murrill says she disagrees with the decision and says she will seek immediate relief from the full Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary.
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Gas prices throughout Louisiana are creeping up. They’ve climbed to $2.83 a gallon for regular, up from $2.74 last week. Don Redman with Triple-A says the nearly 10-cent increase is driven by rising crude oil prices and uncertainty fueled by the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran.
It’s going to be a scorcher as summer officially gets underway this weekend. LSU public health climatologist Barry Keim says so far the tropics have been quiet thanks to the Saharan Air acting as a protective layer for the last few weeks, but don’t expect that to last long.
It was nearly a year ago that Hurricane Beryl formed in the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall in Texas in early July.