BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 17 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news: Attorney General Liz Murrill joined a 22-state coalition of state attorneys general in a letter co-led by Iowa and Indiana calling on Congressional Leaders to support and pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility ("SAVE") Act. This commonsense bill will strengthen our electoral process by upholding the rule of law and prohibiting those aliens who are ineligible to vote from doing so. "Pres  more

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, July 18 -- McNeese State University shared the following news: The culmination of a semester's hard work for a team of McNeese State University engineering students took place this summer in Ragley in a balloon launch for the NASA LaACES project, "Development of Radiation Detection Payloads for the 2024 Solar Eclipse Events." Mechanical engineering senior Clara Rosini and project mentors Dr. Bei Xie, associate professor of computer engineering, and Dr. Zhaung Li, profe  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 17 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: An LSU researcher has discovered a potential treatment for the most malignant forms of cancer by fusing two proteins, one that slips past the tumor's defenses carrying a second protein to kill the tumor. Both proteins are produced by bacteria. Staphylococcal Superantigen-Like protein 11 (SSL11) is the delivery platform. It carries a fragment of Pseudomonas exotoxin A (PE24) and binds to a   more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, July 17 -- USA Softball issued the following news on July 16, 2024: * * * Day two of the 2024 GOLD National Championships hosted by USA Softball returned to Devon Park * * * USA Softball welcomed back the GOLD National Championships for day two of pool play Monday at Devon Park. Day two included 19 games across four fields and six timeslots for both the 16U and 18U divisions. 16U Division * Louisiana Voodoo-Barksdale went a perfect 3-0 on the day, outscoring their   more

MIAMI, Florida, July 16 -- Holland and Knight, a law firm, issued the following news release: Holland & Knight represented SkyKnight Capital L.P. in connection with a growth investment in Ampirical Solutions, a leading provider of engineering services and software for the power end-market. The transaction was announced on July 11. Ampirical Solutions, based in Louisiana, will use the investment to enhance its service offerings and capabilities, which include transmission and distribution line,  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 16 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU has named Keena Arbuthnot, Vice President and Chief Data Officer, as Dean of the Pinkie Gordon Lane Graduate School, effective July 11. In this role, Arbuthnot will oversee more than 160 graduate degree programs, including doctoral programs in over 50 major fields of study, as Dean of the most extensive and comprehensive provider of graduate education in the state of Louisiana. Arbuthnot will c  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 17 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU has named Keena Arbuthnot, Vice President and Chief Data Officer, as Dean of the Pinkie Gordon Lane Graduate School, effective July 11. In this role, Arbuthnot will oversee more than 160 graduate degree programs, including doctoral programs in over 50 major fields of study, as Dean of the most extensive and comprehensive provider of graduate education in the state of Louisiana. Arbuthnot will c  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 17 -- Louisiana Economic Development issued the following news release: * * * * Premier Concrete Products, Inc. will invest up to $10 million. * The project is expected to result in 83 direct and indirect new jobs. * The new facility is expected to be complete by the end of the year. * * * DENHAM SPRINGS, La. - Premier Concrete Products, Inc. announced it is investing up to $10 million to add a state-of-the-art precast concrete pipe production unit at its manuf  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 19 -- Louisiana Economic Development issued the following news release: * * * * Innovative mentorship program is available to LED Growth Network companies through a partnership between LED and the Edward Lowe Foundation. * The program has helped more than 60 Louisiana small businesses since its inception in 2020. * Program launch held at the Edward Lowe Foundation's state-of-the-art learning campus in southwest Michigan. * * * Sixteen Louisiana-based, growth-or  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 16 -- McGlinchey Stafford, a law firm, issued the following news release: McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce Members of McGlinchey's Financial Services Litigations team authored several chapters in the latest edition of the Florida Bar Association (FBA)'s Business Litigation in Florida. This resource for business practitioners and litigators in Florida discusses complex commercial issues and provides trial ideas and forms. McGlinchey lawyers authored the fo  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 19 -- Louisiana Economic Development issued the following news release: * * * * The company will invest $13.1 million in the Town of Washington. * Project will retain 340 current positions in Louisiana. * New facility is expected to start operations by Spring 2025. * * * WASHINGTON, La. - Southland Industrial Coatings announced it is investing $13.1 million to construct a new fireproofing facility in St. Landry Parish that will serve customers in the utility an  more

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, July 16 -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release on July 15, 2024: Nicholls State University and Louisiana State University Health Science Center - N.O. School of Medicine partnered to host the annual Culinary Medicine Program at the Chef John Folse Culinary Institute for the sixth year in a row. The program, sponsored by Cardiovascular Institute of the South and Thibodaux Regional Health System, ran July 1-12. 11 third-year medical students from LSU  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 16 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: If a man and a woman each suffer a heart attack, you may assume the symptoms and diagnoses should be the same. That's not always the case. While men are more likely to show the more "typical" signs of a heart attack -- chest pains, shortness of breath -- women are more likely to experience pain in their necks or symptoms that feel like heartburn or nausea. An angiogram that shows a blockage in male blood ve  more

RUSTON, Louisiana, July 16 (TNSres) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: When Caddo Magnet High School sophomore Vennela Malireddy won regionals and then state for the U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize competition, Louisiana Tech University Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Technology Dr. Shaurav Alam was not surprised. Last winter, Malireddy worked with Alam and doctoral engineering student Tulie Chakma in the Advanced Material Research L  more