The LSU-Alabama game in Baton Rouge this Saturday will not be played due to Covid-19 issues within the LSU program. In the meantime, LSU turns its attention to Arkansas, who they are scheduled to play November 21st. Coach Ed Orgeron says they should get a lot of their players back next week and could be ready to play the Razorbacks.
A committee studying potential policing policy reforms met again yesterday with Chair Cleo Fields questioning new State Police Superintendent Lamar Davis on dash and body camera policy. Fields summarized the day’s findings to Davis…
The mandatory evacuation order in Cameron Parish was finally lifted early this morning. The southwestern battered coastal parish had been under a mandatory evacuation order since Hurricane Laura August 27th. Vice President of the Cameron Parish Police Jury, Scott Trahan, says now with Hurricane Eta off their radar, tents have been set up to act as a temporary hospital.
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Hurricane Delta impacted the parish as well on October 9th.
Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, who walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming racist slurs as she became the first Black student at her all-white New Orleans elementary school, has died at the age of 86. Mayor LaToya Cantrell said, “Today we mourn the loss of one of the mothers of the Civil Rights Movement in New Orleans with the passing of Lucille Bridges —May she rest in God’s perfect peace.”