Many LSU fans say the SEC dropped the ball in allowing the LSU-Florida game to be postponed. Fox Sports college football writer, Stewart Mandel says this is particularly troubling because LSU is no stranger to being the displaced team. He says last year Tiger Stadium played host to a flooded South Carolina home team.

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Mandel says he doesn’t see why the game couldn’t have been moved.

As Hurricane Matthew is leaving a trail of destruction along the East Coast, state Climatologist Barry Keim says Tropical Storm Nicole, which is south of Bermuda, could affect Matthew’s path.

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But in this instance Keim doesn’t think that’s likely.

As Louisiana continues to recover from the flood, Attorney General Jeff Landry warns people to beware of frauds. Landry says on the AG website, there is a sample contract to use with contractors doing work on your home and gives some tips to protect yourself.

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He says they’ve already received more than 12-hundred complaints of fraud.

A Lafayette man with “a lot of passion and a little know how” is attempting to make the hottest pepper in the world. Self-professed pepper aficionado, Troy Primeaux, says his first pepper, the 7-Pot Primo, is the second hottest pepper in the world, next to the Carolina Reaper. He says he’s working to make a pepper that’s even hotter- the Louisiana Creeper.

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