The Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy is working with the U.S. Geological Survey to try to find a cause for all the earthquakes in northwest Louisiana. Joe Gallinaro reports.
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***NOTE: The owner of Tiger Rag magazine also owns Louisiana Radio Network.***
Three reporters, including the executive editor for Tiger Rag magazine, the owner of which also owns Louisiana Radio Network, are suing LSU for withholding records of payments to athletes. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The Savannah Bananas are bringing their special brand of baseball to the Caesars Superdome this weekend. Colleen Crain has more.
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More good news about auto insurance rates — since the start of last year, nearly 40 companies have filed rate decreases for private passenger auto policies. Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says the latest company to do so is Imperial Fire and Casualty Insurance Company, which filed a six-percent decrease on its Value Product.
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IFAC also filed for a three-percent decrease on its Mid-Market Product.
Temple says Allstate North American Insurance Company is also decreasing rates by seven and a half percent on average, which affects more than 17-thousand policies.
The commissioner says customers of the companies that have filed for rate decreases will see the savings when their policy comes up for renewal, and if your rates don’t drop…
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Temple says a fewer number of accidents, which means fewer claims, is driving the decrease in auto insurance rates. He says the reforms approved last year that change how auto crashes are handled in civil court have yet to have an impact on rates.
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The Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy is working with the U.S. Geological Survey to get to the bottom of why there’s been a sudden spike in earthquake activity in northwest Louisiana. It was spurred by a magnitude 4.9 quake last week; and since then, there have been a series of other quakes, including four within a ten-minute span early Monday morning. Department spokesman Patrick Courreges (kuh-RAHZH) says one potential cause is what’s called induced seismicity.
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Courreges says as such, C-and-E teams are looking at operations in the area, and they’ve actually been there since December, when the quakes began.
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Courreges says while nothing has turned up yet, seismic staff and field agents are still looking.
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***NOTE: The owner of Tiger Rag magazine also owns Louisiana Radio Network.***
Tiger Rag magazine executive editor Todd Horne is among a trio of Baton Rouge reporters who are suing LSU for refusing to disclose records of public money it’s paying to student athletes. Piper Hutchinson of Louisiana Illuminator and Chris Nakamoto of WAFB-TV are the other two. They’re being represented by Scott Sternberg, who says while the game may have changed, the law has stayed the same.
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The owner of Tiger Rag magazine also owns Louisiana Radio Network.
Sternberg says Horne, Hutchinson and Nakamoto want to know how much public money is going to the student athletes – and, specifically, how much to which ones.
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Sternberg says other schools in Louisiana are being just as evasive with this information as LSU, and this is likely happening at other schools across the country. He makes it clear that this lawsuit is only about public money.
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LSU claims those records are exempt from public disclosure due to federal student privacy law and a state law that exempts NIL agreements from disclosure. In a statement saying it has yet to be served, the university says disclosing the information would put it at a competitive disadvantage.
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The Savannah Bananas are bringing their special brand of baseball to the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans this weekend. Jay Cicero, the CEO of the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, says it’s more of a fan focused event for fun — and there’s a game.
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There will be a two-hour game with the fan-focused event tomorrow and Sunday. Cicero says tickets are by lottery, and New Orleans locals who have found it impossible to get tickets in other cities are happy to find them here.
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Over 60-thousand fans are expected for each event.
The Superdome is not exactly set up for baseball. But the interest in the Savannah Bananas, both by the organization and the fans, is there; so when the Bananas started playing in football stadiums, beginning with Clemson’s, the idea to bring them to the Superdome was born, and the plans were made to make the dome work as a venue.
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The Saints feel really good about the additions they’ve made to their team this week. The headliner is former Jacksonville Jaguars running back and Jennings native Travis Etienne. Coach Kellen Moore says the 27-year-old is coming off his third one-thousand-yard rushing season, and he also caught a career-high six touchdown passes.
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The Saints also signed veteran left guard David Edwards. Edwards spent his first four seasons in the NFL with the Rams and his last three seasons with the Bills. He watched some film on New Orleans while scouting another team late last season, and what he saw caught his eye.
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The Saints have also brought back 30-year-old linebacker Kaden Elliss on a three-year deal. Elliss has led the Falcons in tackles the last two seasons, and he was a team captain. In 2022 with the Saints, Elliss had a career-high seven sacks. Coach Kellen Moore says it’s hard for offensive coaches to game-plan against Elliss.
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LSU baseball begins SEC play tonight against Vanderbilt. The Tigers are ranked 13th in the SEC in hitting with a team .291 batting average. Former LSU star and SEC Network college baseball analyst Todd Walker believes the Tigers are a better hitting team then they’ve shown.
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Vanderbilt is 10-and-7, and their team ERA is 3.94, which is third worst in the SEC. Walker says their best pitcher is Connor Fennell.
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