Amazon is purchasing a satellite communications company based in Covington for 11.6 billion dollars. Joe Gallinaro has the details
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Governor Landry is urging Louisiana voters to vote “Yes” for Constitutional Amendment Three on the May 16th ballot. Andre Champagne has the story..
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State Police is looking for a driver who struck and killed a bicyclist in St. Tammany Parish. The crash claimed the life of 24-year-old Rodrigo Ornelas Junior of Folsom. Trooper Marc Gremillion says the incident occurred at around 12:30 AM on Sunday on Louisiana Highway 40 in Folsom….
Ornelas Junior was not wearing a helmet but was dressed in light-colored clothing. He died at a local hospital. Gremillion says Troopers are looking for a dark-colored sedan or small SUV that struck Orlenas and they need the public’s help…
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Gremillion says anyone with information is urged to contact State Police…
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The 22nd-ranked LSU softball team no-hit UL Lafayette in its 8-0 run-rule win last night. The Cajuns fell to .500 on the season, and head coach Alyson Habetz, who also played at UL from 1990-95, was revved up after the embarrassing loss.
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The Cajuns find themselves in jeopardy of missing the postseason for the second straight year. Habetz says her team can still get to where it wants to be, but it will take a complete turnaround.
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The Cajuns look to bounce back this weekend as they host Coastal Carolina.
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The Louisiana Tech baseball team picked up its seventh straight win on Tuesday night after beating Little Rock nine to three. Just two weeks ago, the Bulldogs had lost eight in a row, but head coach Lane Burroughs says the team has gotten its swagger back.
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Now that the Bulldogs have won seven straight, they head into this weekend’s series with a bigger target on their backs. Burroughs says his team just needs to stay humble and hungry going into their three-game series at Kennesaw State.
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Amazon is purchasing a Louisiana satellite communications company for nearly 12-billion dollars. President and CEO of Greater New Orleans Inc, Michael Hecht, says it’s great news for Covington-based Globalstar…
Globalstar is the primary satellite link for Apple’s iPhone emergency SOS features. In a news release, Amazon says it plans to use Globalstar’s network to enable smartphone users to connect directly to a network of thousands of satellites for voice and data service.
Hecht says Globalstar relocated to the Northshore from California in 2010 and they are now a Louisiana success story…
Hecht says news that Amazon has bought a satellite communications company based in St. Tammany Parish broadens Louisiana’s brand for those companies considering doing business in Louisiana…
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Governor Jeff Landry is making the rounds on local talk shows touting his support for Constitutional Amendment Three on the May 16th ballot. Amendment Three eliminates three education trust funds and use the money contained in those funds to pay down retirement debt, which will give public school teachers and support workers a permanent raise…
The three education funds that would be dissolved contain about two billion dollars according to the Legislative Fiscal Office. Landry says the money from those funds can be used to pay down a debt of seven billion dollars with the Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana…
In 2023, the Louisiana Legislature provided teachers with a stipend of two-thousand dollars and school support workers with a one-thousand-dollar stipend. The legislature has paid for those stipends ever since, but Landry say passage of Amendment Three makes those temporary pay raises permanent…
Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell opposes Amendment Three, He says one of the trust funds has paid out millions for classroom needs over the last 25 years.