Inshore shrimp season opens today in Louisiana. It previously started on August first, but Louisiana Shrimp Association President Acy Cooper says the later start means bigger shrimp and bigger shrimp mean more money.
Ponchatoula-based Elmer Chocolate has been sold to Florida based Hoffman Family Companies. Elmer is known for Gold brick eggs and heavenly hash eggs, popular Easter candies. Geoff Hoffman with HFC says their goal is to grow Elmer, which has annual revenues around 100-million dollars…
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Longtime Elmer CEO Rob Nelson and his brother, Michael, will remain in their roles as CEO and president.
With the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaching, a documentary premieres tonight on ESPN looking back at the Saints’ return to the Superdome.
Cut 2 (35) “…I’m Andrew Greenstein”
Fall camp continues this morning for the LSU football team, but freshman running back JT Lindsey was not there. Lindsey has been suspended after he was charged with two felony counts of accessory after the fact of second-degree murder. He allegedly allowed two murder suspects from Alexandria to stay at his dorm on campus for nearly two weeks. Lindsey denies knowing they were murder suspects.