The Ruston High Bearcats are getting a new logo after Rutgers University asked the school to change it. Both use an identical block R, but Rutgers holds the trademark. Principal Dan Gressett says the school is not seeing much pushback from the community as the block R logo has only been in use for the last ten years.
A new logo is expected to be unveiled next week.
Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of Hurricane Camille’s devastating landfall along the Mississippi coast in 1969. Before Hurricane Katrina, Camille was the Gulf Coast’s defining storm. State Climatologist Barry Keim says the impact was so devastating that it led to the creation of the Saffir-Simpson Scale, which categorized hurricanes in a way regular people could understand.
The system is one of only four Cat 5s to make landfall.
The US Department of Health and Human Services awards nearly $400 million nationally in grant funding to combat the opioid crisis with nearly $5 million coming to Louisiana. Assistant Secretary for the Office of Public Health Dr. Alex Billioux says much of the spending will lay infrastructure to continue with other health goals linked to drug use, including eliminating hepatitis C within the next five years.
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Billioux says while the state’s number of opioid overdose deaths continues to grow, the rate of growth has slowed down.