The Smoothie King Center will host Lafayette native Dustin Poirier’s final UFC fight tonight. Kace Kieschnick reports.

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The latest SEC preseason poll has LSU finishing in fourth, behind Texas, Georgia, and Alabama. But with the top incoming transfer class, Tiger Rag Executive Editor Todd Horne thinks LSU has enough to prove voters wrong.

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Republicans did what they have long sought to do – they have cut off all federal funding to PBS and NPR stations to the tune of more than one-billion dollars. Senator John Kennedy was among those who led the push because of what he says is a liberal slant in PBS and NPR’s news coverage.

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Jay Curtis, the general manager at Monroe NPR station KEDM, says all public radio and TV stations play an important role in their respective local communities.

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Kennedy said the broadcasting landscape has changed dramatically since the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was founded more than 50 years ago.