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If You Can Pronounce These Words, You’re Definitely From Louisiana
LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL News) - You can always tell when somebody isn't from Louisiana by the way they talk. There are a lot of ways to pronounce certain towns and locations in Louisiana, and they are not always said the way you'd think they would be. Certain words in Louisiana...
Louisiana Gunowners Now Able to Conceal Weapons without a Permit
BASTROP, La. (KTVE / KARD)– Louisiana’s new law that would allow carrying a concealed handgun without a permit is set to go into effect tomorrow. NBC 10’s Joel Massey has more on what that means for gun owners. State Republicans have advocated for years about permit-less concealed carry and in Governor Jeff Landry’s special session […]
Local Family Support and Coaching Program Helps First-Time Mothers and Their Families
The Louisiana Department of Health currently provides voluntary, no-cost home visiting services to families in our community. To qualify for home visiting services, families must be eligible for one or more of the following services:. Medicaid. Social Security Income (SSI) Special Supplemental Nutritional Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
Cash Money reuniting at Essence Fest on Friday night
NEW ORLEANS (AP/WVUE) — A Cash Money reunion show will headline Essence Fest at the Caesar’s Superdome on Friday night. Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Friends will celebrate 30 years of Cash Money Records and its Millionaires. Juvenile, Busta Rhymes, T-Pain, The Roots and Mannie Fresh are scheduled to perform. R&B singers Jacquees and Ari Lennox and country artist Mickey Guyton also will take the stage.
Local spots to find fried chicken on National Fried Chicken Day
BATON ROUGE - National Fried Chicken Day is observed on July 6 and these local eateries have menu items to help celebrate the holiday. Blue Store Chicken - 4949 North Boulevard, closes at 8 p.m. Chicken Shack - 413 N Acadian Thruway, closes at 10 p.m. The Chimes - 3357...
LSU baseball's strength and conditioning coach is returning to an SEC rival
LSU baseball strength and conditioning coach Jeremy McMillan is heading back to Texas A&M, a source confirmed to The Advocate Saturday. McMillan spent this past season as the Tigers' strength and conditioning coach after he was at Texas A&M for the previous 12 seasons. A source indicated that Jordan Pennella,...
Ten S&D Athletes Earn CSCAA Scholar All-American Status
BATON ROUGE, La. – Ten LSU Swimming and Diving athletes received CSCAA Scholar All-American status after their outstanding performance in and out of the pool, the organization announced. Four Tigers were named to the first team: Katarina Milutinovich (MBA), Maggie Buckley (Biological Science), Megan Barnes (Economics), and Sofia Sartori...
BRCC offering free summer math tutoring
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Free summer math tutoring is being offered by Baton Rouge Community College. The tutoring sessions are taking place at BRCC’s newly opened state-of-the-art math lab. It’s located in the Cypress Building at the mid city campus on Community College Drive. Officials are hoping...
LSU Baseball and the Portal: Who Jay Johnson has added (so far)
LSU baseball head coach Jay Johnson and his staff are retooling the roster through the NCAA Transfer Portal, and the Tigers are up to double-digit transfer additions. The NCAA Transfer Portal window is now closed for college baseball programs, but teams are still looking to add the final pieces to rosters ahead of the 2025 season.
Meet Your Neighbor: Farmer plants seeds to help others while passing on knowledge
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Getting fresh foods to more people can be a challenge. It’s a test J’Quincy Jones is confronting head on as a farmer. Jones is dressed the part in his signature look of overalls and cowboy boots. “The young folks, they’ll call it a...
Counting down to Mississippi State 2024 Kickoff: 56 Days
56 as in…the epic 56-yard dash for touchdown at LSU by Dak Prescott in 2014. It was the offensive play of the game in which Prescott turned into simply Dak forevermore. To be sure the legend which is Dak can also be justifiably dated to his fourth-quarter and overtime feats in the 2013 Egg Bowl win. That sealed his name as a Bulldog. What he did in Tiger Stadium a fall later put him on the national stage, amplified by two following wins sending Mississippi State to the top of the polls for the first time ever.
Louisiana High School Football Player Killed in Car Crash
Sad news out of Pointe Coupee Parish as a West Feliciana High School football player was killed after driving off the highway and hitting a tree early Friday morning. According to Louisiana State Police, 17-year-old Rayshon Franklin Jr. was driving a 2007 Toyota Camry eastbound on LA 78 just west of LA 1 near Parlange around 5:30 am when he went off the road into a ditch, overturned the car, and hit a tree.
LSU offering freshmen $3,000 not to live in dorms this semester
BATON ROUGE, La. — Incoming freshman with home addresses within 30 minutes of the LSU's Baton Rouge campus now have the option to stay at home this semester instead of living on campus and will get paid to do it. “We’ve offered some of our local students here the...
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