Still waiting on a decision from the SEC and Florida about the status of Saturday’s college football game between the Tigers and Gators. We were told yesterday that a decision would be made by noon today, then it was pushed back to two o’ clock and now there are reports a decision on a location and game time will be made by 5:00.

Florida is bracing for the impact of a Category Four Hurricane. Matthew is packing winds of 140 miles hour. If there’s significant damage to Florida, will that hurt efforts by Louisiana’s Congressional delegation to secure more federal flood aid? Senator Bill Cassidy predicts Matthew will create a heightened awareness for a need to help storm-impacted communities…
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Cassidy says Congress will return in December to discuss more financial flood relief for Louisiana and what will need to be done to help those impacted by Hurricane Matthew.

The UL System Board of Supervisors names Northwestern State President Doctor Jim Henderson as the new leader of the UL System. Henderson believes his healthy relationship with state lawmakers can help the nine universities that make up the UL system…
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Henderson will take over as UL system president on January 1st.

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s appeal for a new trial. Nagin was convicted in 2014 on public corruption charges. Legal analyst Chick Foret says for the appeal to be heard, Nagin’s lawyers would have had to show there was irreversible error during the trial…
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Nagin has served two of those ten years.