Attorney Tony Clayton, who is assisting in the lawsuit that’s attempting to give college athletes a fifth year of eligibility believes SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey should come to Louisiana to explain how he can prohibit a football player from playing college football this season just because he was on an NFL roster for a brief time…
Cut 10 (10) “….take advantage of it”
A preliminary injunction hearing is set for Monday where Judge William Jorden could rule that it’s illegal for the SEC to ban pro athletes and the conference can not punish its member schools for doing so.
A reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who fatally shot a bald eagle in Vermilion Parish last December is up to 20-thousand dollars. LDWF Corporal Stuart Guillory says investigators believe the bald eagle was deliberately shot…
Cut 5 (13) “…an intentional act”
The late Dolly Parton made her mark on Natchitoches as she spent the summer of 1988 there to film “Steel Magnolias.” That September, Parton returned to Natchitoches to perform her hit song “Nine to Five” at halftime of a football game. Northwestern State Marching Band director, Bill Brent, says she nailed it…
Cut 15 (13) “…she was”
Louisiana’s Hunger Free Campus program has received a one million dollar allocation from the state legislature. Higher Education Commissioner Kim Hunter Reed says House Appropriations Chairman Jack McFarland committed to increasing the funding after speaking with a college student who needs food assistance…
A recent study found that nearly out of four college students nationwide experience food insecurity.