The Southland Conference joins other leagues in deciding to play football in the spring. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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The Saints kick off the season on September 13th against Tampa Bay, but Who Dat Nation will not be in the Superdome. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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The Southland Conference has decided to postpone league competition for football and other fall sports to the spring semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Commissioner Tom Burnett says questions surrounding the long-term effects of the virus was a factor in their decision
The league is giving schools the option of playing nonconference games in the fall, but McNeese, Nicholls, Southeastern Louisiana and Northwestern State have decided to wait until the spring. Burnett says the plan is to play a conference schedule in 2021
Football teams in the Southland have been holding workouts and the league held a virtual media day last month. Burnett says NCAA released a new set of health and safety requirements last week and that caught the attention of school leaders…
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The Saints announce no fans will be in the Superdome for the season opener versus Tampa Bay on September 13. Team President Dennis Lauscha says while Orleans Parish is doing better in reducing the spread of the virus, fans coming in from other areas are a concern.
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Lauscha says team officials have been working closely with health and safety experts, state and local authorities, and the NFL to outline a plan for the safest way to reintroduce fans to the Superdome.
The fate of game attendance for other home games is currently unknown and will depend on the status of trends in virus spread. Lauscha says the game-day production with fans in attendance is vital in maintaining dome field advantage.
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41-year-old Taniel Cole is custody after allegedly brandishing a gun in a Shreveport hospital, executing a carjacking, and taking law enforcement on a cross-state chase before being apprehended in Mississippi.
Shreveport Police Chief Ben Raymond says Cole entered Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport and started a domestic dispute with someone there…
A bystander who is believed to have no been a part of the domestic dispute then attempted to intervene and was shot in the left. Raymond says that bystander may have saved lives…
The victim who was shot is not in serious condition and is expected to make a full recovery.
After shooting the bystander…
Cole continued to drive by himself to Mississippi and was apprehended near the state line with Alabama.
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The Louisiana Health Department announced eleven-hundred new coronavirus cases today, bringing the state’s total to 135-thousand. But Governor Edwards says the percentage of tests that show a positive coronavirus case is decreasing
The number of COVID-19 patients in the hospital has fallen below 13-hundred to 1,281. Edwards says nearly a month ago, there were 16-hundred COVID-19 patients hospitalized
The state also reported 41 more COVID-19 deaths as the death toll rose to 42-hundred. Edwards says 49-percent of the victims are white and 49-percent are black but black residents make up 33-percent of Louisiana’s population
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42-year-old Curtis Carroll of Tallulah has been arrested and charged with Second Degree Murder of 38-year-old Pamela Oliver of Tallulah, who is believed to have been Carroll’s girlfriend. Master State Police Trooper Michael Reichardt says Oliver’s body was discovered Tuesday yesterday in Madison Parish…
Oliver was last seen alive on Saturday. The Madison Parish Sheriff’s Office assisted in the arrest. Reichardt says helping rural parishes solve serious crimes is a big part of what LSP does.
Carroll is also a suspect in an arson that occurred several weeks ago, but is not related to this homicide.