Twenty years ago, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, LSU’s Pete Maravich Assembly Center was converted into a makeshift, thousand-bed triage and acute care hospital. Sean O’Keefe was the school’s chancellor at the time and says it was in the state’s emergency preparedness plan that the PMAC would be a shelter for displaced nursing home residents, but it became much more than that.
The new Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women opens in St. Gabriel. Warden Kristen Thomas says being that this will be the only prison of its kind in Louisiana, it will house inmates of all types.
Cut 7 (09) “…maximum custody inmates.”
For the first time in 1,022 days, the Northwestern State football team is in the win column! In front of their win-starved fans at Turpin Stadium, the Demons beat Alcorn State, 20-10, to snap a 20-game losing streak. After the game, Demons coach Blaine McCorkle said it feels good to finally get a win in Natchitoches.
Saturday night, it’s Grambling against Langston in the Shreveport Kickoff Classic. Grambling Athletic Director Traevean Scott says Langston, which is an NAIA school out of Oklahoma, has a rich history with several Louisiana ties.