The Saints’ season opener against the Tampa Bay Bucs at the Mercedes Benz Superdome on September 13th will go on without any fans in attendance. The fate of game attendance for other home games is currently unknown and will depend on the status of trends in virus spread. Team President Dennis Lauscha says the game-day production with fans in attendance is vital in maintaining dome field advantage.
The Southland Conference has decided to postpone league competition for football and other fall sports to the spring semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The league is giving schools the option of playing nonconference games in the fall, but McNeese, Nicholls Southeastern Louisiana and Northwestern State have decided to wait until the spring. Commissioner Tom Burnett says the plan is to play a conference schedule in 2021
41-year-old Taniel Cole is custody after allegedly brandishing a gun in a Shreveport hospital, executing a carjacking, and taking law enforcement on a cross-state chase before being apprehended in Mississippi. Shreveport Police Chief Ben Raymond says Cole entered Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport and started a domestic dispute with someone there.A bystander who is believed to have no been a part of the domestic dispute then attempted to intervene and was shot in the left. Raymond says that bystander may have saved lives…
42-year-old Curtis Carroll of Tallulah has been arrested and charged with Second Degree Murder related to a woman whose body was found in rural Madison Parish. The victim has been identified as 38-year-old Pamela Oliver of Tallulah, who is believed to have been Carroll’s girlfriend. Master State Police Trooper Michael Reichardt says helping rural parishes solve serious crimes is a big part of what LSP does.