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LSU Football Fans Can Get Tickets To First 2024 Home Game Dirt Cheap
The college football season begins this Saturday, August 24th with what is called week zero. There are a few games on tap this Saturday including #10 Florida State taking on Georgia Tech in Ireland. Another game that should grab your attention if you are from Louisiana is the McNeese Cowboys...
Scott Rabalais: Risking ridicule, I predict LSU's game-by-game football record in 2024
When you’re a sports columnist, you’ve got to put your words out there and suffer the slings and arrows of justly deserved ridicule if what you write turns out completely wrong. This is one of those times. Picking LSU football’s wins and losses for an upcoming season is...
Louisiana’s First Buc-ee’s Clears MAJOR Hurdle – Construction Closer Than Ever
RUSTON, La. (KPEL News) - America's favorite beaver mascot took a step closer to getting a foothold in Louisiana this week after the zoning commission in Ruston, Louisiana approved a site map for the establishment. Now, Buc-ee's is closer than ever to its first Bayou State travel center. A crucial...
Local communication workers join regional strike
DAYTON — Local communications workers are joining nearly 17,000 others across the Southeast in a strike against AT&T in an attempt to get the communications to the bargaining table over unfair labor practices, according to Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 3802 Union officials. Local communications workers have been demonstrating on Railroad Street in downtown for the past several days, and on Wednesday, CWA and AT&T entered into federal mediation and had their first meeting with the mediator this morning. ...
La. Democrats relish Kamala Harris’ history-making run for president
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Louisiana Democrats attending the Democratic National Convention in Chicago trumpeted the historical significance of Kamala Harris’s being at the top of their party’s ticket this presidential election. And they relished witnessing history close up. Harris is the first black and Indian female to receive...
Uber driver robbed at gunpoint in Seventh Ward, NOPD says
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - An Uber driver was robbed at gunpoint Friday morning (Aug. 23) in the Seventh Ward, New Orleans police said. The 38-year-old rideshare driver told police he picked up two women at Bourbon and Toulouse streets in the French Quarter shortly after 10 a.m., and drove them to the 1900 block of Elysian Fields Avenue.
SLU Faces South Alabama at Home
HAMMOND, La. – The Southeastern Louisiana University women's soccer team will return to the field Sunday afternoon to face South Alabama at 1 p.m. for its last non conference match at Strawberry Stadium. The match between Southeastern (0-0-1) and South Alabama (1-1) will be televised on ESPN+. Live stats...
De La Salle has the kind of schedule that should have it prepared for new playoff division
Graham Jarrott built a nondistrict schedule that should excite De La Salle alumni just as much as it should prepare the Cavaliers for the remainder of the season. Especially when they reach the playoffs. After 11 consecutive seasons against larger-enrollment schools in the LHSAA Division II playoffs, De La Salle...
A top deputy to Mayor LaToya Cantrell who oversees permitting, blight enforcement resigns
A top official in Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration who oversees permitting, code enforcement and economic development has resigned, effective at the end of the month. A city spokesperson confirmed Friday that Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Tom Mulligan would be leaving the role he stepped into in 2022, after his predecessor, Peter Bowen, was fired.
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