There’s a bunch of Purple and Gold in Omaha as LSU fans are hoping to see the Tigers win their seventh national championship in baseball. Baton Rouge resident Jacques Berry started making the drive to Nebraska yesterday and says the LSU fan base has a lot of faith in Coach Paul Mainieri’s squad, because they are playing so well as a team…
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Game one tonight at 6 PM.

Students who attend seven of the nine schools that make up the University of Louisiana System will pay higher fees for school next fall. The increase will cost students an extra 108-dollars on average. But UL System President Doctor Jim Henderson says college students will pay less for their eduction this year, because TOPS is fully funded….
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Henderson says Grambling State and UNO have made the decision not to increase fees.

A pair of LSU AgCenter researchers will use grant money from the USDA to study what could be impacting honeybee colonies. Entomologist Kristen Healy says one possible factor is mites, because they transmit pathogens to the bees, and they’ll study the effects of those diseases, like the deformed wing virus.
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Healy says it’s important to protect the bee population because one out of every three bites of food we eat relies on bees for pollination.

A New Iberia father and son have been charged with killing a Louisiana black bear. The Louisiana Black Bear was killed near Lyida in 2015. LDWF officials say through ballistic testing they were able to determine that 59-year-old Elie Dupre owned a rifle that shot the fatal bullet which killed the black bear. It was determined his 15-year-old son was present during the shooting. The father and son face a significant fine and possible jail time.