For the first time ever, the number of Republican active registered voters in Louisiana exceeds the number of Democratic active registered voters. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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LSU Head Coach Brian Kelly will take the podium at the first of four SEC Football Media Days in Atlanta today. Kace Kieschnick has more.
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A highly contagious and deadly disease that was believed to have been eliminated in the U.S. a quarter century ago is back with a vengeance. Colleen Crain reports.
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For the first time, the number of active registered Republican voters in Louisiana exceeds the number of active registered Democratic voters. John Couvillon (KOO-vee-ahn) with JMC Analytics and Polling, says when examining the total number of registered voters, Democrats still outnumber Republicans in the state. However, when you remove those who haven’t voted in the last two federal elections, that changes things.
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Couvillon says it will take a while for Republicans to overtake Democrats in the number of registered voters in Louisiana, since there are many more inactive Democrats on the voter rolls.
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Couvillon says month after month, Democrats keep losing registered voters.
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958-thousand Republican active voters to 920-thousand active voters.
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SEC Football Media Days kick off in Atlanta with LSU, Ole Miss, South Carolina and Vanderbilt. Tigers coach Brian Kelly will be joined by quarterback Garrett Nussmeier, linebacker Whit Weeks and wide receiver Chris Hilton. Locked On SEC Podcast host Chris Gordy says Nussmeier could be the next great year two LSU quarterback.
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11 of the 16 SEC schools will be bringing their quarterbacks to Atlanta. Florida sophomore DJ Lagway is sure to be a headliner, but no name will be bigger than Texas’s Arch Manning. Gordy says Arch Mania is in full effect.
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One of the stories of the offseason sure to be discussed is future formatting for the College Football Playoffs. Expansion from 12 to 16 teams is almost certain, but the Big Ten and SEC have debated whether their conferences should receive multiple auto-bids. Gordy says four SEC teams would likely make the playoffs each year anyway.
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U-S Senator John Kennedy says the only way to put a stop to the Russian-Ukraine war is to keep Russia from selling oil to countries like China. Kennedy says he believes Ukraine is willing to negotiate a reasonable deal, but Russian President Vladimir Putin is not interested in a settlement until he decides its in his best interest to stop the war…
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Kennedy says Russia’s economy is not diversified, it’s mostly oil and the selling of oil to other countries is helping them pay for their conflict against Ukraine…
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Kennedy says if America does not cut off Russia’s sale of oil, the war, could go forever. He says current sanctions on Russia are not enough. The Republican Senator is calling on Congress to pass a bill that says countries who buy oil from Russia, can no longer do business with America and you can no longer use the American dollar to do business in America…
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Kennedy says President Trump is trying to negotiate the peace, but he’s hoping he’ll throw his support behind a bill that will cut off Putin’s cash flow.
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It was thought to have been eradicated a quarter century ago; but apparently, measles is back with a vengeance. Dr. Fred Lopez, a professor of medical education at the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans, says the number of measles cases across the country is staggering.
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In fact, the previous high since then was 1,282 cases – and we still have almost half the year to go. Louisiana is among the 38 states with confirmed cases. Dr. Lopez says your very best defense against the highly contagious and deadly disease is to get vaccinated.
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Lopez says if the vaccines don’t prevent you from getting measles, they will at least keep symptoms down to a minimum.
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Leaders from Sun Belt schools are expected to vote today to invite Louisiana Tech into the league as the 14th member of the conference. Tech would replace Texas State, who just left for the PAC-12. Locked on Sun Belt podcast host Dave Schultz says momentum began building last week for the Bulldogs to join the Sun Belt…
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School’s in Sun Belt’s western division have supported the move from the beginning, but schools in the East Division were not thrilled with having three schools from Louisiana in the Sun Belt. But Schultz says Tech is the obvious choice to replace Texas State because of geography…
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Louisiana Tech would leave Conference USA for the Sun Belt next July.
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It didn’t go as excaclty as planned, but LSU left-hander Kade Anderson is still excited about the team that drafted him. The Washington Nationals and the Los Angeles Angles both passed on the D-1 baseball National College Pitcher of the Year, which allowed the Mariners to grab Anderson with the third overall pick. Seattle’s V-P of Amateur Scouting Scott Hunter. says they are thrilled Anderson dropped to them…
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Anderson was the Most Outstanding Player of the 2025 College World Series. He was 12-1 during his sophomore season with a 3.18 ERA and he led the nation in strikeouts with 180 in 119 innings. The lefty celebrated the moment with his family in Madisonville…
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After an up and down freshman season, Anderson flourised his sophomore campaign under the tutelage of pitching coach Nate Yeskie.
Most of the mock drafts had the Nationals selecting Anderson with the number one overall pick. Instead, Washington took 17-year-old Eli Willits from Oklahoma. Anderson says the only team to visit him in Louisiana was Seattle and he had a great visit with Seattle’s Assistant General Manager Andy McKay…
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