LSU and Bama will not play in Baton Rouge Saturday as previously planned due to a COVID outbreak on the LSU team reportedly linked to a Halloween party. Due to a combination of positive tests and mandatory quarantines, LSU will not have the minimum number of scholarship players on the roster necessary to compete in SEC play. The hope is to reschedule to game into later this year, but LSU is already having to play one COVID rescheduled game later in the season, that one against Florida.
Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul is confident they’ll find out what exactly happened on Saturday night when three of his officers had an encounter with freshman LSU wide receiver Koy Moore. Moore says he was harassed and violated by the cops who assumed he had a gun and drugs. Paul says their internal affairs investigators are leading the probe
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Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is leading the national Republican AG’s association effort to get the US Supreme Court to invalidate ballots received in Pennsylvania after 8 PM on Election Night, citing Pennsylvania state law. Landry says this challenge is about preserving election integrity.
The state Supreme Court ruled that any ballot post marked as of Election Day would be valid.
One of several deployment ceremonies for the 256th Brigade of the Louisiana National Guard was held in Lafayette this morning. In total, about 2,000 soldiers are involved in the yearlong Middle East mission in support of U.S. Central Command. General Keith Waddell of the Louisiana National guard reminded servicemen of their mission.