The hurricane forecast team at Colorado State predicts we’ll see 11 named storms for the rest of the season, eight of those storms are expected to become hurricanes. State Climatologist Barry Keim says the tropical Atlantic has been much warmer than normal and the absence of El Nino make for perfect hurricane conditions….
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LSU announces they will build a statue of the school’s lone Heisman Trophy winner. Billy Cannon led the Tigers to a national championship in 1958. The 80-year-old thanks his former teammates, Warren Rabb and Jimmy Fields and Athletic Director Joe Alleva for pushing LSU to construct the statue….
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Alleva says Cannon is largely responsible for the emergence of big-time football at LSU.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is not pleased that crawfish have been found in one of their lakes and a retention pond…
Voicer 5 (30) “I’m Jeff Palermo”

Thirteen chefs, including Bonnie Breaux from St. Martinville, will compete Saturday in the Great American Seafood Cook-off at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser says they also have chefs from Alaska, Massachusetts and New Mexico…
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Tickets cost 10 bucks and it begins 11:30 AM.