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Higher ed is in crisis. These experts have advice for colleges trying to survive.
The grim financial situation at the University of New Orleans, where decades of low enrollment and financial missteps have culminated in a $10 million budget deficit, is becoming increasingly common on campuses across the country. As many as two-thirds of colleges and universities in the U.S. have over the last...
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'Unprecedented and wrong': New Orleans demonstrators protest Musk, Tesla as 'takedowns' spread globally
Steven Lindsley is an Army veteran who protested the Vietnam War in the 1960s, opposed Republican President Richard Nixon in the 1970s, and led a recall effort against Gov. Edwin Edwards, a Democrat, in the 1990s. On Friday, he joined more than 70 demonstrators outside a Tesla Service Center on...
The Town Talk
Nine Louisiana residents sentenced to federal prison for trafficking meth from Houston
Nine Louisiana residents have been sentenced to prison terms after a drug trafficking investigation in Avoyelles Parish, according to a news release. An investigation into methamphetamine distribution in Avoyelles Parish was started by the FBI Central Louisiana Gang Task Force, reads the release from acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook. It included surveillance and authorized wire tapes for phones being used to traffic drugs, it reads. Those wiretaps supplied investigators with "numerous communications between the defendants wherein they discussed their narcotics trafficking," reads the release. The longest sentence was more than 18 years, and each defendant will be...
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Newell: New Orleans leads the country in population shrinkage; we can’t have another 8 years of a Cantrell(esque) administration
Since 2020, about 28,400 people have left the city for other pastures. Nearly two-thirds of Louisiana parishes saw their populations dwindle last year. And Orleans Parish is shrinking by the highest rate. (See more on WWL and Audacy)
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Teen catches tagged Toledo Bend bass
That question has to be on bass fishermen’s lips after 15-year-old Thomas Deshotels of Kinder caught an 11.53-pound bass in a creek that feeds Toledo Bend’s Housen Bay. When Deshotels arrived at Buckeye Landing on Saturday, March 8, to have the fish measured and its weight certified for the Toledo Bend Lunker Bass Program, it was discovered that the fish was tagged – from being caught earlier as part of the program. A quick check of the records showed the fish had been caught by Craig Bean of Lake Charles on Jan. 15 in Housen Bay, about a quarter-mile from where Deshotels fooled it with a black/blue ChatterBait.
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Plumber dies in Kenner after being trapped under house for over an hour
KENNER, La. — A plumber who became trapped while working in the 3200 block of Kentucky Avenue in Kenner has died, according to officials. The Kenner Fire Department was called to the scene at 3:48 p.m. they arrived just three minutes later. Kenner fire officials said the victim was...
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Findings on RPSO deputy-involved shooting at Academy presented to DA’s Office
ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - The Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office has provided an update on their investigation into Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office’s deputy-involved shooting at Academy Sports + Outdoors on South MacArthur Drive in Alexandria on January 24, 2025. Grant Parish Sheriff Steven McCain said on March 11,...
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Timing of severe thunderstorms headed for New Orleans and Baton Rouge becoming clearer
The window in which severe thunderstorms could pummel New Orleans and Baton Rouge with hurricane-force winds, rain and tornadoes Saturday is becoming smaller, National Weather Service forecasters said Thursday afternoon. Weather service meteorologist Kevin Gilmore said in a video briefing at 3:30 p.m. Thursday that scattered storms are expected to...