LSU has reinstated basketball coach Will Wade after a five week long suspension. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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It’s four months into 2019 and the crawfish season still hasn’t quite taken off. Matt Doyle talked to a mudbug expert about why that is.
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LSU basketball coach Will Wade’s suspension is over as the 36-year-old has been reinstated, after meeting with LSU and NCAA officials. Athletics director Joe Alleva says Wade answered all questions and denied any wrongdoing in connection with the reported allegations of recruiting violations. Tiger Rag Assistant editor Tyler Nunez says Wade could have possibly avoided the five-week long suspension
Alleva says Wade’s explanations offered during the meeting, absent actual evidence of misconduct, satisfy his contractual obligation to LSU. Nunez says LSU’s compliance department look into the Yahoo Sports Report that allegedly had Wade discussing improper benefits and could not find any wrongdoing
Wade returns to a team that looks much different than the one that just won the SEC regular season championship. Five players have declared for the NBA draft, but have the option of returning to LSU. Nunez also needs to build up a recruiting class that’s rated near the bottom in the SEC…
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The severe weather that impact Louisiana on Saturday resulted in two deaths. The first was a 13-year-old boy, who fell into a flooded drainage canal in West Monroe. Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s spokesperson Deputy Glenn Springfield says a call for help came just before 5 o’clock Saturday afternoon.
The child was identified as Sebastian Omar Martinez. The investigation is ongoing as to why he fell into the water. This is the second child to be killed by flooding in less than a week.
Springfield says a call came in around 10:15 PM of a vehicle being taken over by floodwaters on a rural road in Calhoun. When first responders arrived, the vehicle was still underwater.
Deputies say the victim was identified as 80-year-old Patsy Meeks.
Springfield says the flooding has resulted in infrastructure damage that leaves some roads closed today. In West Monroe, Highway 546, which is one of the major state highways in that part of the parish, sustained a severe washout under the roadbed.
The potential for more severe weather is in the forecast Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
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The crawfish supply remains limited this season and experts cannot pin down an exact cause. LSU Ag Center Aquaculture Specialist Greg Lutz says its a mixed bag when it comes to size and quantity of the crop.
He says so far they have two leading theories as to why the mudbug class of 2019 appears to be smaller in both size and number. One of them is the irregularly long winter that featured some bursts of brutally cold weather.
The other theory is the white spot virus, which is a fatal disease for mudbugs. Lutz says white spot has become a bigger problem since it was first discovered in Louisiana ponds about 10 years ago.
Lutz reiterated that the virus does not effect humans, or even fish, it’s restricted solely to crustaceans.
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A St. Landry parish judge has denied bond for 21-year-old Holden Matthews, who is accused of burning down three historically black churches. Matthews had his first court appearance today since he was arrested on Wednesday night. Legal analyst Tim Meche is not suprised Matthews remains in jail without bail…
Matthews was arrested Wednesday on three arson charges. Prosecutors have also added three hate crime charges. But Meche says the hate crime charges are not that significant
Matthews trial on state charges is set to begin in September. Federal prosecutors are also considering charges against Matthews and Meche expects this case be prosecuted federally…