The 13th ranked LSU basketball team followed up last Saturday’s overtime win over 5th ranked Tennessee with a 66-55 victory over Texas A-and-M last night. Tigers Coach Will Wade was glad there was no hang over from the big win over the Vols…
cut 30 (06) “…big victory”
Senator John Kennedy wants to know how much the Louisiana Health Department spent on ineligible Medicaid recipients after a new computer system kicked tens of thousands of recipients off the rolls…
Cut 3 (30) “I’m Matt Doyle”
Louisiana’s GDP rose to 252 billion in the third quarter, up 2.3 billion from the second. Department of Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson says there’s a few heavy industries in particular you can point to for the state’s growth
Cut 11 (11) “…timber sectors.”
Critics point out the state’s growth is below the national average of 3.4 percent.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will open over 30 bays on Bonnet Carre Spillway in St. Charles Parish this morning because of the rising Mississippi River. Water will be diverted from the Mississippi and sent into Lake Pontchartrain. Colonel Michael Clancy says the spillway will open to make sure the river’s flow doesn’t exceed 1.25 million cubic feet per second…
This is the first time ever that the Bonnet Carre Spillway has been used in back to back years to control the flow on the Mississippi.