BATON ROUGE — Gov. Jeff Landry took office with a conservative agenda and a Republican super- majority in the Legislature after eight years of a Democratic governor, promising sweeping changes in this year’s legislative session.
The Ogunyemi Family Foundation, Inc. established the Wisdom, Strength, and Endurance Scholarship to provide underrepresented minority students the opportunity to pursue higher education by alleviating and/or eliminating the financial barriers to the student’s success.
BATON ROUGE — The Legislature gave final approval Monday to a bill that would allow surgical castration of convicted rapists and pedophiles whose victims are under age 13.
In a significant boost for sustainable energy research, Yang Xiao, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Louisiana Tech University, has been awarded a two- year, nearly $200,000 U. S. National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.
The numbers aren’t in yet, but organizers of the Louisiana Peach Festival say this year’s event may have drawn the biggest crowd since the annual summer celebration reorganized four years ago.