A record number of Louisiana high school students are set to move on to college. Matt Doyle discussed the results with the State Assistant Superintendent…
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LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center will participate in a study to see why some people born in rural parishes and counties are more resilient when it comes to heart disease and other illnesses. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Three Louisiana teams are in the NCAA Baseball Tournament. Jeff Palermo has more on who they will play…
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The 2018 high school class sets a record for the number of kids who’ve made the jump to a two-year or four-year college.
Roughly 64 percent of all grads will be entering into higher education and Department of Education Assistant Superintendent Jessica Baghian says one reason is…
She says other reasons include expanding the Jump Start program along with increasing college credit opportunities and financial aid form assistance.
Louisiana has seen a 23 percent increase in the number of students entering college from high school since 2012. Bahgian says that adds up to 4,626 more students than seven years ago.
1,566 more students decided to enter college in the class of 2018 than the class of 2017.
Baghian says it’s been a banner year overall for the class of 2018, which set records across the board…
29 percent of those who enrolled in a college are set to go to a two year school, versus 71 percent who chose a four year program.
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Researchers from LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center and other institutions will study why some people in rural parishes and counties live longer, more healthier lives. Doctor Stephanie Broyles will lead the Louisiana portion of the study and they’ll look at two parishes, Assumption and Franklin…
Broyles says in a couple of years they will recruit about 700 participants from Assumption and Franklin parishes to see why Assumption is more resilient to heart disease and other illnesses compared to Franklin. She says there’s nothing obvious on why that is…
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The Boston University School of Medicine is coordinating the six-year study and funding comes from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
Broyles says the study has immense potential, because it will figure out what why some rural areas combat health risks better and the information gained can be used by communities to make changes to improve health…
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The Army Corps of Engineers announces it will open the Morganza Spillway in Pointe Coupee Parish on Sunday. Governor John Bel Edwards on why they need to open the Morganza Floodway structure for the third time in history and the first since 2011.
Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and the St. Mary Levee District will begin installing a temporary barge flood on Bayou Chene (Shane) in southern Assumption Parish on Tuesday. Edwards says it will take about a week to install and it will prevent backwater flooding for communities east of Morgan City…
Edwards is requesting federal assistance due to the ongoing threat of river flooding across Louisiana.
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A Senate approved bill that would allow a parish by parish vote on the legalization of sports betting will be heard today in the House Appropriations Committee.
Currently the bill calls for the activity at racetracks and casinos but video poker interests are hoping to expand that. Metairie Senator Danny Martiny says that can’t happen…
A companion bill to tax the activity proposes a 13 percent tax rate, which Martiny says is about average, and nearly equal to that of Mississippi’s. One percent would be sent to compulsive gambling funds.
Martiny says the best chance it has to pass the House this year is if the legislation does not include add-ons like allowing it at video poker locations. If special interests alter the bill in committee…
But the Metairie Republican is optimistic and thinks Louisiana could have sports betting in the state’s racetracks, riverboat casinos, and land-based casino in New Orleans by the end of the year.
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LSU will face a familiar foe on Friday night in the opening round of the Baton Rouge Regional. Stony Brook, who upset the Fighting Tigers in the Super Regionals in 2012, returns to B-R to take on LSU once again. Coach Paul Mainieri says Friday’s game will have nothing to do with 2012
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Mainieri says the 2012 team had seven players drafted in the first few rounds. He says Stony Brook deserved to beat them seven years ago
Southern Miss and Arizona State are the other two teams in the LSU Regional. Shortstop Josh Smith says it looks like a tough regional
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Southern is in the NCAA Baseball Tournament for the first in 10 years and they will head to Starkville to play Mississippi State on Friday afternoon. The Jags beat LSU earlier this year and last season played a tight game against the Bulldogs through seven innings, before State pulled away. Southern Coach Kerrick Jackson..