Louisiana and Apple have partnered together to distribute 25-thousand Mac and iPad devices to make digital opportunities more accessible to residents. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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LDWF is hailing its first-ever recreational alligator hunting season. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Louisiana through a partnership with Apple will distribute more than 25-thousand Mac and iPad devices to eleven organizations to make digital opportunities more accessible for residents. Governor Landry says the project is called Etoufee and it’s intended to support rural Louisianans who can not afford a computer…
Louisiana Community and Technical Colleges will receive 13-thousand devices. The system plans to use the devices to extend distance learning. Landry says adult learners who lack a computer will have access to devices and direct instruction to help them attend class, complete coursework and apply for jobs online…
Landry says veterans service organizations and rural health facilities like the West Ascension Parish Hospital and the Savoy Medical Center in Evangeline Parish will also receive devices…
Connect LA is administering Etoufffee with funding from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Capital Projects Fund and working with Apple, SHI, and the Louisiana Office of Technology Services to deliver the program.
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LSU is holding a celebration of life ceremony in the P-MAC tonight, honoring legendary basketball coach Dale Brown. Brown passed away at the age of 90 a few weeks ago. The winningest coach in LSU history forever changed LSU basketball and touched countless lives. Fox Sports broadcaster Tim Brando says he was overwhelmed with emotion when he heard of Brown’s passing, but he knows he’s not alone.
Brown led the Tigers for 25 years and earned four SEC titles and made two runs to the Final Four. Brando says one of his first memories with Brown was how he would personally drive out to come on his radio show when he was first starting in Baton Rouge.
Brown was known for his upbeat outlook and positivity. He was dubbed the “master motivator” for his leadership of those around him. Brando says he was a genuine article, but there were plenty of skeptics who had never seen anything like him.
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Doors open at 5:30 for the ceremony, which starts at 6. It will also be streamed on the LSU Sports YouTube and SEC Network-plus. Brown’s family asks that, instead of flowers, memorial donations be made to the Dale Brown Scholarship Fund through the Tiger Athletic Foundation to support student-athlete and general academic scholarships across campus.
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LDWF is hailing its first-ever recreational alligator hunting season. Throughout the month-long season last month, more than 36-hundred hunters harvested more than 18-hundred alligators. Franklin Senator Robert Allain wrote the bill to allow the recreational hunting of alligators.
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The average harvest size was seven and a half feet.
LDWF is already starting to plan for next year’s recreational alligator hunting season. This year, they offered as many as ten-thousand tags, and Senator Allain says he feels that’s an appropriate number.
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Allain says the best part about the new recreational alligator hunting season is that it brings generations of families together, as evidenced by a Facebook post of a constituent he came across.
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The legislature approved the recreational hunting of alligators because the state is starting to become overrun with alligators. In fact, there are an estimated three-million alligators in Louisiana – about two-thirds of the state’s human population.
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It’s a day to salute our veterans as it is Veteran’s Day. Louisiana Senator John Kennedy says these brave men and women risk their lives for our freedom. He encourages anyone who has not been to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia to go…
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Kennedy says every November 11th we come together to thank our Veterans…