The LSU baseball team improved to 11-1 yesterday afternoon with a three-to-nothing win over Dartmouth. It was not a great weekend for LSU’s bats. The Tigers scored just 11 runs over the last three games after scoring 34 runs in three games in Jacksonville. Jake Brown, who homered for the fifth time on the season on Sunday, is confident the bats will come back around…

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LSU hosts Northeastern tonight at 6:30 to conclude the wrap-around series. The Tigers remained as the No. 2 team in this week’s D1baseball rankings.

LSU football coach Lane Kiffin will ride in his second parade in a month on Saturday, March 14, in Baton Rouge at the St. Patrick’s Day parade with comedian Theo Von. The parade begins at 11 a.m. and will ride through the Hundred Oaks neighborhood and Perkins Road overpass area in town.

The LSU women’s basketball team concluded the regular season with a 72-63 win over Mississippi State yesterday.  Junior guard Mikaylah Williams recorded her third consecutive double-double with a season-high 26 points and career-high 15 rebounds in the win. Head coach Kim Mulkey said allowing Williams to play inside recently has boosted her productivity.

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The Tigers stayed put as the No. 6 team in this week’s AP Top 25 Poll. They came in as a two-seed and the No. 7 overall team in the latest NCAA Tournament projections by ESPN Bracketologist Charlie Crème.

The McNeese men’s basketball team will take on Nicholls in Thibodaux tonight in their last regular-season game of the year. Tipoff is at 6:30 p.m.

UNO men’s basketball will host Southeastern in the regular-season finale tonight at 7 p.m.

Gas prices usually rise at this time of the year as there is a switch from winter blend gasoline to summer gasoline. But the war that’s erupted between the United States and Iran could lead to even higher gas prices as crude oil prices have risen sharply since bombs started dropping. But AAA’s Nick Chabaarria with Triple-A says the silver lining is that gas prices are 17-cents lower than they were at this time last year…

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The statewide price for a gallon of regular gasoline is $2.57.

There are more than 15-thousand students at Southeastern Louisiana University, the highest spring enrollment in school history. Chief Enrollment Management Officer, Kay Maurin says as the region grows, so should Southeastern…

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Before you go to bed tonight, you might want to set your alarm clock a little earlier. Andrew Greenstein reports that’s because you’ll be in for a special treat up in the sky tonight.

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LSU football coach Lane Kiffin continues to engrain himself in the Louisiana culture. Kiffin will be a special guest and ride in the Wearin of the Green Baton Rouge St. Patrick’s Day parade on March 14^th. Last month. Kiffin served as a co-grand marshal for the Endymion Parade in New Orleans.

If you’re an early bird – and even if you’re not – you’re going to be in for a very special treat early tomorrow morning: a total lunar eclipse. LSU Planetary Astrophysicist Dr. Natalie Hinkel says while a lunar eclipse may not be quite as spectacular or rare as a total solar eclipse, it is still quite a spectacle which happens when the sun, the Earth and the moon completely align with one another – in that order.

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The lunar eclipse begins at 2:44 AM.

A House committee begins holding hearings today on Governor Landry’s spending plan for the next fiscal year.  The governor’s office is seeking an 82-million-dollar increase in state funding for its corrections department.  And The Office of Juvenile Justice is seeking a 28-million-dollar increase as Louisiana’s juvenile justice system is incarcerating more youth offenders. Fifteen-million dollars will be used to open a new youth prison in Vernon Parish, and Appropriations Chair Jack MacFarland says they also want to increase staff salaries.

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A big change is coming for those seeking to apply to LSU’s Baton Rouge campus – prospective students will once again have to submit their SAT or ACT scores. The campus had been operating under a test-optional policy since 2022, but no more. Chancellor Dr. James Dalton says the test score is just one component of the total comprehensive admission process.

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LABI’s LA Driven report shows Louisiana is making strides when it comes to improving education and workforce readiness. LABI president Will Green says Louisiana is well on its way towards achieving its education goals of 66 percent third-grade reading proficiency and an 88-percent high school graduation rate by 2030.

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Green says they are also

LSU has reinstated a standardized test requirement for admission to the Baton Rouge campus. Students would have submit either an ACT or SAT score. Chancellor Doctor James Dalton says the test score is one piece they will look at for admission…

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LSU Board of Supervisors member James Williams expressed concern about requiring a test score., because standardized tests display known socioeconomic and geographic biases…

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The holistic admissions process that LSU has used over the last several years is designed to promote economic and racial diversity. Since adopting the test-optional admissions, Black and Hispanic enrollment has increased.

The Appropriations Committee begins a series of budget hearings today as they comb through Governor Landry’s budget proposal for next fiscal year. Appropriations Chairman Jack MacFarland  expects debate over the L-A GATOR program, the state’s education voucher program that provides financial assistance to 56-hundred low-income families to attend private school. Landry wants to grow the program to help more than just low-income families with their educational expenses. MacFarland says Landry wants to increase funding from 44-million dollars to 88-million.

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The University of Louisiana System has named Ramesh Kolluru as U-L Lafayette’s seventh president. Before being appointed interim president last year, Kolluru was the university’s vice president for research, innovation and economic development – a role he held for more than a decade. Now that he’s the full-time president, Kolluru says he will continue to grow U-L Lafayette as a research institution.

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A big change is coming for those seeking to apply to LSU’s Baton Rouge campus – prospective students will once again have to submit their SAT or ACT scores. The campus had been operating under a test-optional policy since 2022, but no more. Chancellor Dr. James Dalton says the test score is just one component of the total comprehensive admission process.

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The U-L System has taken the interim tag off of Dr. Ramesh Kolluru’s title as he is now the full-fledged president of U-L Lafayette. Dr. Kolluru says he wants to enhance the student experience, and that includes all facets like health and wellness, financial assistance and connecting them with business and industry as soon as possible.

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The Corrections Department and the Office of Juvenile Justice seek more funding as the House Appropriations Committee begins budget hearings today. Jeff Palermo has the story.

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Differing views from Louisiana’s Congressional delegation on President Trump’s decision to launch military strikes against Iran. Republican Julia Letlow says Iran was warned repeatedly that the US would take action if it did not reverse course on its efforts to build a nuclear bomb. Democrat Troy Carter says the president violated the Constitution by not consulting Congress first.