Fifty years ago, there wasn’t a single brown pelican to be found in the pelican state. The demise of the population can be traced back to the use of the pesticide DDT. But the population of the bird has since rebounded to about 100,000 throughout Louisiana. LDWF Nongame Bird Biologist Michael Seymour says the rejuvenation effort began in the late 1960s.
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Seymour says there’s now over eight-thousand adult pelicans on Queen Bess island.

A Grambling State grad student studying communications is one of eight people in the country to receive a 25,000 dollar scholarship funded by music superstar Beyonce. Cletus Emokpae is from New York and struggled to pay for his own education, until he received this amazing gift from Beyonce
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A chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy has appealed a federal judge’s decision that allows for the removal of a confederate monument from the courthouse grounds in Caddo Parish. The United Daughters of the Confederacy says the Caddo Parish Commission does not have the authority to remove the monument, because it’s on private land.

The drought monitor says extreme drought conditions have reached northwest Louisiana, but state climatologist Barry Keim says relief is on the way…
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But before the rain gets here on Sunday, expect hot and humid conditions.