LSU Economist Loren Scott says in 2019 fans spent 58.6 million dollars in new sales on LSU football game days, and if the season were to be canceled, or fans barred from the stadium due to COVID-19 that loss of revenue would be felt in sectors all over the Capitol region.
COVID cases are spiking statewide with another 1,100 cases reported today along with another notable jump in hospitalizations. No decision has been made yet on the fate of the upcoming LSU season.
The National Association of Counties calls for more federal assistance for local governments, citing data that shows locals have lost 144 billion dollars nationwide since the pandemic began. Tangipahoa Parish President Robby Miller says spread mitigation efforts are eating away at the revenue they do have left.
A 19-year-old man is dead and a 22-year-old man is behind bars facing a murder charge after an argument inside Dillard’s at Mall St. Vincent in Shreveport accelerated to violence in the Mall’s parking lot Saturday afternoon. Shreveport Police Department Spokesperson, Angie Willhite…
Cut 7 (11) “…second degree murder.”
(Trey – vee- ous) Treyvious Dotie of Shreveport was arrested in connection and charged with the shooting death
The tropics are seeing an uptick in activity with the formation of Tropical Storm Edouard in the north atlantic. Edouard became a named storm yesterday, setting the record for the earliest formation of a fifth named storm of a season. State Climatologist Barry Keim says there’s also another system to watch, a wave sitting over Florida. If it does develop it would be record setting as well.