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6 days ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
The Saints rookie minicamp this weekend got rocked with shocking news that quarterback Derek Carr has retired. “In late March, while ramping up his preparation for the 2025 season, Derek experienced pain in his right shoulder,” the Saints said in a statement posted to social media. “It was his first time throwing a football at significant volume since recovering from both a concussion and left hand injury sustained during play on December 8, 2024.
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1 week ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
Not only was Pope Leo the 14th born in Chicago, but it turns out that he has roots in New Orleans. Jari Honora, a family historian at The Historic New Orleans Collection, started digging into the former Robert Prevost’s family after hearing his last name, and he was amazed at what he found. “His mother’s family, which is Martinez, they are rooted here in New Orleans,” says Honora.
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1 week ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
The Coast Guard says it has gained the upper hand on an oil spill off Plaquemines Parish. “At approximately noon (Sunday), our well intervention team — they were successful in their attempt to cut the flange on the discharging wellhead, which allowed them to install a system that would allow us to regain control of the source,” says Coast Guard Lt. Phillip VanderWeit.
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1 week ago | 
audacy.com | Andrew Greenstein
Whooping cough cases continue to climb in Louisiana. Four months into 2025, there are now more whooping cough cases in Louisiana than in all of last year. "We've identified 164 cases of whooping cough, and that's compared to 153 cases that were identified in all of 2024," says State Epidemiologist Theresa Sokol.
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2 weeks ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
Police in Minden are investigating the death of a toddler inside a home. “The two-year-old was left in a house locked in a car seat — along with the 10-month-old — unattended,” says Jared McIver, Minden police chief. Police responded to the home early Thursday morning, but the two-year-old girl was already being rushed to a hospital by a neighbor. Unfortunately, doctors were unable to resuscitate the little girl.
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2 weeks ago | 
andrewgreenstein.medium.com | Andrew Greenstein
A chicken quest and 10 undiscovered spots. Johnny loves chicken. If you looked at his Instagram one year ago, you’d have no idea. He’s clearly creative and has a great sense of humor, but you wouldn’t peg him as a food creator. He had about 2K followers and a handful of reels — none of them cracking six-digit views. Then he dropped his first chicken reel. Nearly 300K views. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6KmdJ0OOmf/He started sharing his favorite chicken spots around his neighborhood.
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2 weeks ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
Louisiana Tech’s campus will soon be transformed with two new buildings aimed at strengthening academic success and research. One of them is the new Origin Bank Academic Center for Student Athlete Success. “It is a building devoted to giving academic support to our scholar athletes. They are students first, and we want to ensure that as they go through the rigorous curriculum that (their needs) are fully supported,” says University President Jim Henderson.
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2 weeks ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
Andrew Novak and Ben Griffin have their first PGA Tour victories, winning the 2025 Zurich Classic at the TPC Louisiana in Avondale. Novak and Griffin finished at -28, one stroke better than brothers Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard. Players competed in teams of two; the first and third rounds were played using the best-ball format, while teammates alternated shots in the second and fourth rounds.
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3 weeks ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
If you’ve ever said you could do a better job balancing the budget than the elected officials you repeatedly insult on social media, you’re now invited to put your money where your mouth is. PAR, LSU and The Advocate have all teamed up to launch the online game, Solve The Budget!“It really puts you in the shoes of the governor or the legislator who has to make these decisions,” says PAR President Steven Procopio. “You can lower the state sales tax rate,” Procopio says.
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3 weeks ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
Saturday is National Drug Take-Back Day. The Drug Enforcement Administration will be at several collection sites throughout the country, including Louisiana, collecting expired or unwanted medications. “We want to get them out of people’s drug cabinets so they don’t fall into the wrong hands,” says Keith Bakewell, assistant special agent in charge of the Baton Rouge district office for the New Orleans field division of the DEA.
