Bars in a limited number of parishes have begun inviting patrons back for the first time in months. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Two of the best to ever play football in the Bayou State will be enshrined into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. Matt Doyle has the story…
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The Department of Children and Family Services so far a little over 60,000 have applied for DSNAP in the areas impacted by Hurricane Laura. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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The state is seeing cooler and dryer air as a cold front sweeps across Louisiana and high pressure from Canada has taken control of the weather across the eastern United States. State Climatologist Barry Keim says summer weather is not over with yet, but this is a welcomed break.
Keim says this weather pattern will also come with very low humidity with dew points in the low 60s for the most part.
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Keim says it isn’t all good news as there is tropical depression 22 has formed in the southwestern Gulf. Early models indicate the storm could hit south Texas.
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The first bars have begun reopening in select Louisiana parishes that have less than a five percent positivity rate on COVID tests.
City Bar in Crowley opened up Wednesday night. Owner Chad Monceaux (mon-so) says he’s been getting calls from antsy patrons ready to return to their favorite watering hole.
About seven parishes have so far have been permitted by the state to reopen bars.
Under Phase Three bars that can open must do table service and limit indoor capacity to 25 percent. Governor Edwards has warned Phase Three could last months and Monceaux worries about what that could mean…
Monceaux has accumulated 40,000 dollars of debt to keep the business running since the shutdowns were first ordered in March.
Edwards issued an order yesterday allowing businesses to serve alcohol until 11 PM, up from 10 PM, but Monceaux says that’s still a problem…
Monceaux also noted there is conflicting information between various state agencies as to when you are allowed to begin serving.
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The 2021 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame induction class features one of the best receivers to play for the Saints, LSU’s most decorated player on defense, and a college basketball legend. Hall of Fame Chairman Doug Ireland says the Saints all-time leading receiver Marques Colston will be enshrined in June…
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Also going into the Hall from the gridiron is former LSU defensive tackle Glen Dorsey, who helped lead the Tigers to a 2007 national championship. Ireland says Dorsey was a two-time All-American and named SEC Defensive Player of the Year.
Former LSU basketball star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf is also part of the 2021 class. Ireland says the high-scoring guard for the Tigers was the SEC player of the year as a freshman and sophomore
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Former LSU track and field coach Pat Henry, former Southern star and MLB infielder Rickie Weeks, former Nicholls softball pitcher Courtney Blades-Rogers, former Richwood football coach Mackie Freeze and 1980 Bassmaster Classic Champion Bo Dowden of Natchitoches are the other 2021 inductees.
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The Department of Children and Family Services receives federal approval to operate a Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in three more parishes, including Caddo, LaSalle, and St. Landry. DCFS Assistant Secretary of Family Support Shavana Howard says so far a little over 60,000 have applied for DSNAP.
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The new additions bring the total number of parishes eligible for DSNAP to 21.
So far, $12 million has been paid out in DSNAP benefits, but Howard says they expected another 100,000 to apply for the assistance in impacted areas.
Depending on their situation, those eligible families could be leaving lots of available assistance on the table.
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Step-by-step instructions on how to apply can be found at dcfs.la.gov/DSNAP.
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ULM hosts their first home game of the season Saturday night with Sunbelt rival Texas State rolling into north Louisiana.
ULM Athletic Director Scott McDonald says fans will be there to cheer on the Warhawks, but they’re expected to be on their best COVID-mitigating behavior…
ULM opened the season with a tough 37-7 road loss against Army last weekend.
So what can we expect attendance to be?
Tailgating is banned, and the band, spirit groups, and cheerleaders won’t be on the field for the contest, they’ll have to stay up in the stands. After the game ends and the teams leave they’ll be allowed onto the field to perform.
There was a time when it looked like all of college football would be canceled, and McDonald says just getting to this point has been a real challenge…
This weekend’s game will be the first college football game to be played in Louisiana with fans.
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After having last week’s game postponed because of a COVID-19 outbreak within the team, La Tech will open the season tomorrow night at Conference USA foe Southern Miss. The Bulldogs are expected to play two quarterbacks, Aaron Allen and Luke Anthony. Tech also has new offensive and defensive coordinators. Even Head Coach Skip Holtz is not sure what we’ll see
Southern Miss has played a game as they lost to South Alabama in their season opener. But following the game 5th year head coach Jay Hopson resigned and receivers coach Scotty Walden took over as interim head coach. Holtz doesn’t expect Walden to make drastic changes to what Southern Miss likes to do