New Orleans is the only city that has been invited to bid for the 2024 Super Bowl, potentially setting the stage for the Big Easy’s 11^th time hosting the big game. Saints Owner Gayle Benson will pitch NFL executives on hosting Super Bowl 58 on Wednesday. Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation President Jay Cicero says unlike past years, there’s no competing bids.

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New Orleans’s last Super Bowl was in 2013, where the power went out and the Ravens won.

The latest school shooting, this time at Santa Fe High School, has reignited the conversation around gun regulations. New Orleans Senator Troy Carter introduced three gun control that failed to passed, and says despite a lack of support in the capital this year, he’ll be reintroducing them next year.

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Summertime means more door to door sales, and that means more predatory home security sales practices. Don Molino has more.

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Iberia Bank, the largest financial company based in Louisiana, is shuttering 22 branch locations this year in the state, and 296 locations across the Southeast. Iberia recently acquired Gibraltar Bank and Trust for 223 million dollars, leading to further closures and the laying off of 124 Gibraltar employees.

A Louisiana legend has passed away. LSU says Billy Cannon died peacefully Sunday morning at his home in St. Franciscille. Cannon led LSU to a national championship in 1958 and won the school’s only national Heisman Trophy in 1959. Tiger Rag President Jim Engster asked Cannon about winning college football’s most prestigous award…
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Cannon had a fall from grace in the 1980s when he was convicted on counterfeiting charges and served two and a half years in prison.

Summertime is the most active season for door-to-door sales and unfortunately many of pitches are made by scam artists. Better Business Bureau Southwest Louisiana President Carmen Million says home security installation and sales ranks among one of the most problematic and reported industries in the country.
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State Fire Marshal Butch Browning says never let an unwanted salesman into your home.

Former Senator and First Lady Elaine Edwards will be laid to rest today. Jeff Palermo takes a look at her fascinating history.
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New Orleans will reportedly be awarded as a host city for Super Bowl 58 in 2024. An official presentation will made on Wednesday at the NFL owners meeting in Atlanta. New Orleans is the only city that’s been asked to bid on the Super Bowl for that year. The Big Easy has hosted the game 10 times, but hasn’t hosted the big sporting event since 2013.

The U-S is once again reeling from another mass casuality fatal shooting at a school. There were several bills in the regular session seeking to place restrictions on gun ownership, but none of them passed. New Orleans Senator Troy Carter says for any gun control legislation to gain traction, one organiziation in particular will have to get behind it….
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Thibodaux native and former Baton Rouge resident Cynthia Tisdale was one of 10 people killed in the Friday Houston area school shooting.

There’s a report the Super Bowl is returning to New Orleans. NFL reporter Albert Breer says the Big Easy will be awarded Super Bowl 58, which will be held in February 2024.

LSU and its fans are mourning the death of Billy Cannon, who passed away peacefully at the age of 80. He’s the school’s only Heisman Trophy winner and inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2005.

Summertime is the most active season for door-to-door sales, and State Fire Marshal Butch Browning reminds everyone to be wary of home security sales fraud. Dale Meredith of Cottonport recounted his story of how a salesman saw the ADT sign outside his house and proceeded to impersonate an ADT official who claimed to be there to replace his panel…
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State Fire Marshal Butch Browning says don’t invite a door-to-door salesman into your house.

Fox Television will broadcast the 67th Miss USA pageant at 7 PM, which will be held at Hirsch Colisuem in Shreveport. Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau spokesperson Chris Jay says the Miss Universe Organization will shine a bright light on the Shreveport area…
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The investigation continues today into Sunday’s fatal helicopter crash in St. Charles Parish that killed one person and two individuals. The chopper crashed on an Entergy transmission line right-of-way in the marsh.

LSU football legend Billy Cannon has died at the age of 80. He’s the school’s only Heisman Trophy winner, but also ran into trouble with the law in the 1980s and served 2.5 years in prison for running a counterfeiting scheme. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2005.

Louisiana’s longest serving First Lady, Elaine Edwards, will be laid to rest today in Baton Rouge. Biographer Leo Honeycutt says Elaine Edwards was never thrilled with the political life, but served briefly as a US Senator, following the death of Allen Ellender in 1972….
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She was 89-years-old.

Summertime means more door to door sales, and that means more predatory home security sales practices. Don Molino has more.
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The Miss USA finals are tonight in Shreveport. Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau spokesperson Chris Jay says the contestants have enjoyed their time preparing for the big night
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Another school massacre has brought gun control back into the national spotlight just three months after the Parkland shooting. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Louisiana has lost one of its legends. Billy Cannon, LSU’s only Heisman Trophy winner, passed away peacefully on Sunday morning at his home in St. Francisville. Cannon led LSU to a national championship in 1958, won the Heisman Trophy the next year and also ran the 100-yard dash in less ten seconds. He was 80 years-old.

Funeral services are this morning for Louisaina’s longest serving First Lady. Elaine Edwards was married to former Governor Edwin Edwards for 40 years and with him for three of his terms. The two divorced in 1989 and biographer Leo Honeycutt says Elaine then tried her hand at acting…
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She was 89-years-old.

Tonight in Shreveport, it’s the Miss USA Finals which will be shown on Fox-TV at seven PM. Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau spokesperson Chris Jay says the contestants have enjoyed their time preparing for the big night…
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The pageant is expected to have a five-million dollar economic impact on the area.

State legislators have today off and then it’s back to work tomorrow as a two-week special session begins, where lawmakers will attempt to pass tax bills to address a 650-million revenue shortfall.

The latest school shooting, this time at Santa Fe High School, has reignited the conversation around gun regulations. In response to the Parkland massacre, several bills were introduced in Louisiana that targeted firearms, but all were struck down. New Orleans Senator Troy Carter, who introduced several gun bills this year, says he hopes the legislature will come around on gun control.
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Thibodaux native and former Baton Rouge resident Cynthia Tisdale was one 10 people killed in the mass shooting.

State Fire Mashal Butch Browning says the summertime brings an increase in door-to-door fraudulent salesmen trying to scam you on a home a security system. Browning says report any suspsicious activity and offered four tips…
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LSU legend Billy Cannon died Sunday morning at the age of 80 at his home in St. Francisville. Cannon is the school’s only Heisman Trophy winner. That season was highlighed by a magical 89-yard punt return for a touchdown against Ole Miss. LSU Athletics Director Joe Alleva says there may be no other figure in LSU sports more beloved or revered.

Today is the funeral service for former First Lady Elaine Edwards, the onetime US Senator, actress, seamstress, and wife of Edwin Edwards. Elaine married Edwin in 1949, remaining married for 40 years, and three terms of her husband’s governorship. Biographer Leo Honeycut says a life in politics wasn’t exactly what she had in mind.
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She was 89-years-old.

Shortly after the end of regular session last night, Governor John Bel Edwards announced he’s vetoed the budget approved by lawmakers, because of the cuts across state government in funding…
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So lawmakers will return for a special session on Tuesday. They’ll be asked to raise at least 648-million dollars in revenue to make up for the loss in one-point-four billion dollars in temporary taxes that expire on June 30th.

As I mentioned earlier, the regular session ended last night. Lawmakers failed to pass legislation that would extend the state’s operating license for Harrah’s New Orleans casino. Legislators were concerned over whether the state was getting a fair deal.

A bill to rescrict cell phone use while driving also failed to legislative approval.

The U-S Labor Department figures show there are more people employed in Louisiana than ever before. Louisiana Workforce Commission Executive Director Ava Dejoie says education and health services added 78-hundred jobs for the year, while leisure and hospitalitity gained 67-hundred jobs…
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Monroe was the only metro area to report a jobs loss over the last month.

Ohio State grad transfer quarterback Joe Burrow has made the decision to continue his college career at LSU. Is Burrow the answer to LSU’s problems at quarterback. Matt Mascon with ESPN Radio in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, says Coach Ed Orgeron is taking a calculated risk with Burrow…
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Burrow has spent the past three seasons at Ohio State as a back-up. He graduated, which allows him to play this fall and he has two years of eligibility left.