The LSU School of Information Studies is marking this Veterans Day with a huge grant to preserve Vietnam-era military records. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Two Louisiana football programs are being punished for their involvement in fights in their respective games. Andre Champagne has more.
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The Louisiana High School football playoffs kick off Friday. Jeff Palermo has a look at the non-select brackets.
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LSU’s School of Information Studies is marking this Veterans Day with a 91-thousand-dollar grant aimed at preserving the records of Vietnam-era military veterans. Dr. Edward Benoit, the interim director of S-I-S, says the two-year planning project will create a program for librarians, archivists and Veteran Service Organizations to help those veterans document and preserve those records.
Dr. Benoit says many Vietnam-era veterans, the average age of whom is 75, lack complete documentation of their military experience due to lost or destroyed records, since that era came before documents were preserved digitally.
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Benoit says this project, dubbed the Virtual Footlocker Project 2, will create digital copies of the records of Vietnam-era veterans, which will benefit not only the veterans themselves, but also their family members.
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President Trump is floating an idea of using tariff income to give Americans two-thousand-dollar rebate checks. It’s a decision that Trump cannot make unilaterally – it’s Congress which controls the purse strings, and House Speaker Mike Johnson says there may be other options for using that tariff income.
On KEEL radio in Shreveport this week, Johnson said he’s not convinced that spending tariff income to give Americans rebate checks is the best use of that money.
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The Supreme Court may ultimately have the final say. While it’s issued preliminary rulings that’s allowed Trump to continue imposing tariffs, it has not issued a final ruling yet. If it ultimately rules that Trump improperly used emergency powers to impose tariffs, the government may have to give that money back to the countries that paid those tariffs in the first place.
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Two football games involving Louisiana schools were marred by fights over the weekend, and their respective conferences have handed down punishments. The Sun Belt Conference has suspended six Texas State and seven UL-Lafayette football players after a postgame altercation following the Cajuns’ 42-39 win. Head coach Michael Desormeaux (DEZ-er-moe) says he was frustrated with how things were handled at the end of the game.
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Desormeaux defended his players and believes that Texas State is to blame for the outburst after the game.
Senior safety Tyree Skipper has been suspended for the rest of the season, while six other Cajuns will serve a one-game suspension. Even though the Cajuns won, Desormeaux says the locker room didn’t show it after the scuffle.
Meanwhile, the SWAC is suspending 18 Grambling State football players after their involvement in a brawl with Bethune-Cookman players that occurred after halftime in the Tigers’ 31-23 win on Saturday. Additionally, the university is being fined 40 thousand dollars. Head coach Mickey Joseph says the team takes full accountability for the irresponsible behavior.
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Nine players from Bethune-Cookman were suspended, and that school was fined 25-thousand dollars.
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The Louisiana High School football playoffs start Friday. Today we’ll look at the non-select brackets. In Division One, Ruston and Neville are the top two seeds. Spencer Verrett with the LHSAA Network says these two district rivals played each other in October, and it was one of the best games of the year.
Ruston beat Neville on October 17th, 41-37.
North DeSoto is the top seed in Division Two non-select. Verrett says the Griffins have a really good team, but there’s also Iowa, Franklin Parish and Lakeshore; and defending champ Cecilia is a 13-seed.
Jena is the number one seed in Division Three non-select. Sterlington is the defending champ and the two seed. Verrett says Sterlington could play St. James in the semifinals after beating the Wildcats in last year’s title game. He says the bracket is also loaded with other several great teams.
In Division Four, Verrett likes top-seeded Haynesville to win its 18th state championship.
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LSU interim head football coach Frank Wilson didn’t name a starting quarterback for Saturday’s matchup against Arkansas, but all signs point towards senior Garrett Nussmeier remaining as Q-B one. Wilson says that Nussmeier will take the first team reps this week in practice.
Just like the quarterback position, Wilson did not name a starting right tackle. Redshirt freshman Weston Davis started on Saturday against Alabama, but he was replaced by redshirt freshman Ory Williams later in the game. Wilson says he and the staff will continue to evaluate their play before making a decision.
Wilson says he is hopeful for junior linebacker Whit Weeks’ return to the field after he’s missed the last two games due to a bone bruise.