The LSU/Clemson showdown in the Dome Monday night for the CFP National Championship is expected to bring a lot of money and attention to New Orleans and the state at large. Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser says events like these can generate tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, but even more so than that, it’s exposure…
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The Dome has seen three major games to start the year, the Georgia vs. Baylor Sugar Bowl, the Saints vs. Vikings playoff game, and now Clemson and LSU.
Heads up LSU students, you’ll be expected to be at class Monday and Tuesday despite LSU’s historic game Monday night. LSU Faculty Senate President Dr. Mandi Lopez says losing class time is not an option.
Spring classes start Monday.
Troopers locate and identify the driver involved in a fatal hit and run of a bicyclist on Thursday morning just south of Alexandria. Trooper Casey Wallace says the 27-year-old Lacey Jade Jordan of Oakdale was behind the wheel of the southbound Chevy Silverado that hit a 50-year-old Taurus McQuarn of Alexandria on US Highway 165.
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Bossier City Senator Barrow Peacock says north Louisiana is chronically underserved by dentists, and the region needs a dental school in the Bossier/Shreveport medical hub to help solve that problem. The Senator says the lack of access is leading to expensive, and dangerous outcomes where people are taking their oral needs to an ER.
The Senator believes hosting a school in the north would make it more likely those students would stay in the region after graduation.