Triple-A says it expects more than 72-million people to head out of town for the Fourth of July holiday. Don Redman with Triple-A says you can expect heavy traffic – not just this week, but next week as well.
With hurricane season now a month old, we’ve now had two short-lived tropical storms and no hurricanes. LSU Climatologist Dr. Jill Trepanier (tre-PAN-yer) notes that at this time last year, a major hurricane was taking aim at the Texas coast, and it was more than a month before we had another named storm.
The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled former LSU football coach Ed Orgeron’s ex-wife is entitled to half of his 17-million-dollar buyout. Kace Kieschnick has more.
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LSU, meanwhile, is seeing a record freshman enrollment; and as such, it needs to find places to house those students. The school, therefore, is moving forward with plans to build a 215-million-dollar dorm complex that will house an additional 12-hundred students. The dorms are expected to open in the fall of 2027.