Saints legendary kicker Tom Dempsey has died from complications of the coronavirus. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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LSU officials are taking extra steps to prevent the university’s live mascot, Mike VII, from contracting COVID-19. Caretakers are taking the extra precautions after a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City tested positive for the virus over the weekend.
A one day old infant in East Baton Rouge Parish dies after being prematurely born due to complications stemming from her mother’s COVID-19 case. EBR Coroner Beau Clark says the child’s death is being counted in the parish’s total COVID fatalities, because…
He adds this is the first such case in Louisiana, but similar incidents have been reported nationwide.
Dr. Ray Authement, who served as the president of UL Lafayette for 34 years, has died at the age of 91. Upon his retirement in 2008, he was the longest serving public university president in the United States. Current UL Lafayette President Joe Savoie says Authement started at the school as a math professor. Upon his retirement, he came back to the University to teach math again.
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Authement died Sunday at the age of 91.