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Pollinators like this bee enjoy roses. (Photos by Olivia McClure/LSU AgCenter)

Pollinators like this bee enjoy roses. (Photos by Olivia McClure/LSU AgCenter)

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Stop and smell the roses this fall

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, December 3, 2021
If you’ve been keeping up with your roses, you took care of fertilizing and trimming them in late summer during August or, at the latest, September. Undoubtedly, your repeat-blooming roses like Knockout and Louisiana Super Plant drift roses are looking gorgeous right now.
Gov. John Bel Edwards

Gov. John Bel Edwards

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$10B LNG plant announced

Rebecca Chaisson
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Gov. John Bel Edwards and Venture Global LNG CEO Mike Sabel announced the company will invest more than $10 billion in a new liquefied natural gas facility in Cameron Parish that will employ carbon capture and sequestration technology (CCS) to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Centenary College senior Teri Johnson, a native of Eunice, signed copies of her new book, The One, and delivered an author talk at the College’s Meadows Museum of Art on Wednesday. Submitted photo)

Centenary College senior Teri Johnson, a native of Eunice, signed copies of her new book, The One, and delivered an author talk at the College’s Meadows Museum of Art on Wednesday. Submitted photo)

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Centenary student holds book reading/signing at Meadows Museum of Art

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Centenary College senior Teri Johnson, a native of Eunice, signed copies of her new book, The One, and delivered a talk at the College’s Meadows Museum of Art on Wednesday.

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Shot for $100 vaccine incentive extended through Dec. 31

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Louisiana’s Shot For $100 vaccine incentive program is being extended through the end of the year, giving residents another chance to get their shots throughout the holiday season. Louisiana residents now have until Dec.
Mary Manhein founded and directed the FACES lab, assisting law enforcement in finding missing persons and human remains. (Photo courtesy of LSU)

Mary Manhein founded and directed the FACES lab, assisting law enforcement in finding missing persons and human remains. (Photo courtesy of LSU)

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Lab at LSU helps identify the missing

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
“Can you get me the bone lady?” Since the 1980s, law enforcement officials from across Louisiana have called LSU for help in identifying a human remains and finding missing people. This earned Mary Manhein the reputation as “the bone lady.
Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon

Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon

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Insurance Commissioner Donelon says he is working to protect long-term care policyholders

Rebecca Chaisson
Monday, November 29, 2021
Insurance Commissioner Donelon says he is working to protect long-term care policyholders In the coming weeks, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon will take additional steps to protect Louisiana long-term care policyholders of Senior Health Insurance Company of Pennsylvania (SHIP) from potentially...

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In search of a patient joker

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
I don’t know who Mr. Janin was. All I know about him is that he lived in St. Martin Parish in the 1850s, was a practical joker, and was a very patient man. The evidence is in two newspaper reports. On Oct.
Crotons sport gorgeous colors of fall such as yellow, red, orange and green. (Photo by Randy LaBauve/LSU AgCenter)

Crotons sport gorgeous colors of fall such as yellow, red, orange and green. (Photo by Randy LaBauve/LSU AgCenter)

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Crotons, a tropical fall plant

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Fall conjures thoughts of gorgeous landscapes dressed with the colors of the season: yellow, orange and red. During the fall holidays, there are a couple of traditional plants you may see used to create festive décor for our homes. One is mums, and the other is a tropical plant called crotons.
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LSU Prof: Supply down, demand up for holiday shopping

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
It’s been nearly two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and this year’s holiday shopping is feeling the impacts of the pandemic.
Joseph Edwards, missing since 1964, is believed to have been murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen and sheriff’s deputies. His case is thought to be the only one investigated by the FBI and Justice Department during the Civil Rights era in which the body has never been found. (Concordia Sentinel photo)

Joseph Edwards, missing since 1964, is believed to have been murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen and sheriff’s deputies. His case is thought to be the only one investigated by the FBI and Justice Department during the Civil Rights era in which the body has never been found. (Concordia Sentinel photo)

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No charges or body from Civil Rights era violence

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Six decades after a Louisiana man’s disappearance and presumed murder, his family is still looking for answers and a body to bury. Carl Ray Thompson, then 26, spotted his cousin’s two-toned Buick on the side of the Ferriday-Vidalia highway as he sat in the back of a sheriff’s car in July 1964.