NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 20 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on July 19, 2023: * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement announcing his office is joining the Organized Retail Crime Alliance (ORCA), a multi-state effort with U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), law enforcement, prosecutors and private sector partners from Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama (LAMA) to combat organized retail crime conducted  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 20 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on July 19, 2023: Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards joined Senior Military Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Defense Lieutenant General Ronald Clark, Col. Joey Strickland, secretary of the Louisiana Dept. of Veterans Affairs, members of the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, several active and retired military dignitaries as well as state and local officials for the unveiling of The Louisiana Heritage Monu  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 19 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following statement on July 18, 2023 on the conclusion of the 2023 veto session: "In eight years as a Democratic governor with a Republican legislature, I have issued 319 vetoes. More than 99% of those vetoes have been sustained. Usually, we have been able to find common ground to move Louisiana forward, and I am thankful to the legislature for all the good we have accomplished together. But we have also had prof  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 19 -- Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued the following statement on July 18, 2023: * * * Attorney General Jeff Landry issued the following statement after the Legislature overrode Governor John Bel Edwards' veto of HB648: "Today, Louisiana joins all of its neighboring states in protecting children. We have sent a signal to America that Louisiana intends to strengthen the family unit and to protect children from harmful gender reassignment surgeries. "B  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 21 -- Louisiana Economic Development issued the following news release on July 20, 2023: Sixteen Louisiana-based, growth-oriented companies became the fourth group of participants in the American Academy of Entrepreneurs, designed to accelerate business growth and develop meaningful relationships among second-stage companies. The program is made possible by a collaboration between Louisiana Economic Development and the Michigan-based Edward Lowe Foundation. The 202  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 21 (TNSres) -- Tulane University Law School issued the following news: A number of new faces are joining the faculty ranks at Tulane Law in the fall, including an international expert in energy law, as well as scholars in civil rights and gender law, constitutional law, comparative law and human rights and finance, banking and corporate law. Freddy Sourgens was named the James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law and the Director of the Energy Law Center. A Tulane Law gra  more

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, July 19 (TNSres) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Nicholls political science major and criminal justice minor Lizeth Tobias-Garcia is part of the 15 college students selected to participate in the 2023 cohort of the Governor's Fellows Program in Louisiana Government. Tobias-Garcia, a Cut Off native and a graduate of South Lafourche, currently serves as Nicholls chapter president of Alpha Psi Lambda, a Latino co-ed fraternity, and as vice pr  more

HAMMOND, Louisiana, July 20 (TNSpar) -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release: After completing an extensive process, Southeastern Louisiana University has announced that Aramark Educational Services, LLC has been awarded a contract for the management and operation of all dining and catering services for the university. Aramark was chosen from among several other food service providers, and the new agreement will extend a long-existing business partnership between   more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 18 (TNSpar) -- Loyola University issued the following news release on July 17, 2023: Springboard, the online learning platform preparing students for in-demand careers through mentor- and instructor-led programs, today announced it has partnered with Loyola University New Orleans, a private Jesuit university, to deliver completely remote, self-paced, tech training programs in data analytics and software engineering. These bootcamps are open to the public and enable   more

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, July 20 (TNSpro) -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story: The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is accepting applications for its new online psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner post-master's certificate program. The deadline to apply is Aug. 1. Courses for the 20-credit-hour graduate program will begin on Monday, Aug. 21. With courses scheduled year-round, students, who will enroll as a cohort, can complete the certifi  more

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, July 21 (TNSawa) -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story: The University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Dr. Davide Oppo has been recognized as one of the country's top geosciences educators by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Oppo recently earned the 2023 AAPG Foundation Inspirational Geoscience Educator Award. He is an assistant professor in the Ray P. Authement College of Sciences' School of Geosciences. Each year  more