New Orleans is taking bids from contractors to remove four controversial confederate monuments. A ruling by a federal appeals court paved the way for the city to begin taking bids. Vice President of the Monumental Task Committee Gary Mason believes New Orleans is making a big mistake…
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Private money will be used to take the monuments down.

The federal government announces 73-million acres in the Gulf of Mexico will be up for sale on August 16th for oil and gas exploration. But Associate Director of the Tulane Energey Institute Eric Smith says the areas up for sale are not very attractive to oil companies…
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A Jennings women is facing multiple charges after her four-year-old niece was burned and sent to a pediatric burn unit in Texas. State Fire Marshal chief deputy Brant Thompson says the six-year-old daugther of 29-year-old Gail Brown was playing with a lighter and it ignited the clothing of the four-year-old. He says Brown was not around, because she was with a man who paid to have sex with her and then Brown didn’t even try to help….
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Brown has been booked with prostitution and child desertion, plus other charges.

LSU football coach Ed Orgeron is expecting a big 2017 from star running back Derrius Guice and anticipates new running backs coach Tommie Robinson will help Guice’s development…
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Spring football begins Saturday for the Tigers.