CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 24 -- The E.W. Scripps, a broadcasting company, issued the following news release: The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) has appointed Sean Trcalek as vice president and general manager of KATC, its ABC affiliate in Lafayette, Louisiana. Trcalek has over 30 years of experience in broadcast and sales. He served most recently as general manager for KADN, KLAF and MyNetwork Acadiana in Lafayette. This move brings his career full circle as Trcalek started at KATC in 1989.  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 21 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: When disaster strikes, social support and community ties play key roles in maintaining mental health. Yet the COVID-19 pandemic makes such contact difficult, if not impossible, and that can lead to a marked increase in loneliness, isolation, depression and other forms of mental illness, according to a published paper by researchers at the Tulane University School of Social Work. The paper, published in Psyc more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 23 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Entergy Corporation and the Entergy Charitable Foundation have helped power stronger, healthier communities in 2020 by contributing more than $8.7 million to 915 nonprofit organizations across the company's service area during the first two quarters of the year. Of the $8.7 million in contributions, almost $3 million was dedicated to Entergy's COVID-19 relief efforts and Entergy's The Power to Care program, which help more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 23 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) will report its second quarter 2020 financial results before the market opens Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Company leaders will conduct a conference call to discuss financial results at 10 a.m. CT the same day. Listen to a live webcast of the call at entergy.com/investors or by dialing (844) 309-6569 and use conference ID 5161259. From time to time, Entergy posts new and/or revised mater more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 21 -- The Louisiana Democratic Party issued the following news release: The Louisiana Democratic Party announced Louisiana's full delegation to the Democratic National Convention. Based on the results of the July 11 Presidential Primary, all Louisiana delegates are awarded to Vice President Biden. The list of members in Louisiana's delegation can be found here https://louisianademocrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-DNC-Louisiana-Delegation.pdf. "This delega more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 24 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on July 23: As Louisiana surpassed 100,000 known COVID-19 cases, Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a renewal of the current proclamation extending Phase Two in the state, which includes the statewide mask mandate and additional restrictions, until August 7. * Click here to read the renewal proclamation extending Phase Two: https://gov.louisiana.gov/action.cfm?md=communication&task=addMessageClickThru&ms more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 24 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced updates to his appointments to the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University. Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College The mission of the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College is to supervise and manage the institutions, statewide agricultural programs,  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 22 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday announced that he will extend Louisiana's current Phase Two order, which also includes a statewide mask mandate, limits indoor social gatherings to 50 people and prohibits on-premises consumption of alcohol at bars for another two weeks, as COVID-19 incidence remains high across the state and hospitalizations continue to rise. All of the latest restrictions outlined more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 21 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Stephenson Technologies Corp., LSU's applied research entity, has won a $25 million federal contract for groundbreaking work to protect Louisiana's energy infrastructure. Specifically, the award from the U.S. Department of Defense's Naval Research Laboratory will create a digital dome protecting Port Fourchon and the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, the nation's only off more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, July 18 -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Dr. Benjamin Bergholtz, assistant professor of English at Louisiana Tech University, has an article in the latest issue of Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, a 50-year-old journal published by Duke University Press. Titled "The 'Pursuit of Knowledge' and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Encyclopedism in Zia Haider Rahman's In the Light of What We Know," Bergholtz, who teaches primarily American literature, focu more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 23 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Within two weeks of receiving its contract from the state in early May, SDMI helped train 15-20 agents so they could begin making phone calls. Case interviewers started reaching out to those who'd recently tested positive for COVID-19 to collect symptoms, ask if they needed assistance (healthcare, housing, food, or otherwise), and determine if they could have exposed others to infection (the current more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 24 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Within two weeks of receiving its contract from the state in early May, SDMI helped train 15-20 agents so they could begin making phone calls. Case interviewers started reaching out to those who'd recently tested positive for COVID-19 to collect symptoms, ask if they needed assistance (healthcare, housing, food, or otherwise), and determine if they could have exposed others to infection (the current more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 21 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU Marketing Professor Judith Anne Garretson Folse recently co-authored an article with Texas A&M Mays Business School Dean Eli Jones, Baylor University Assistant Professor of Marketing Stephanie Mangus, and Texas A&M Professor of Marketing Shrihari Sridhar that was accepted for publication by Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. "The Interplay Between Business and Personal Trust on Relati more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 23 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU has named James H. Spencer the vice provost and dean for the LSU Graduate School. Spencer is a professor of City & Regional Planning and associate dean of the College of Architecture, Arts & Humanities at Clemson University, as well as Adjunct Senior Fellow at the East West Center in Hawai'i. He will begin his role as vice provost and dean on Aug. 3. "We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Dr.  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 25 -- Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release: A hormone that connects the body's metabolism and immune response system may explain why COVID-19 is so dangerous for people with obesity. "The problem for people with obesity is that their leptin levels are always high, and that can affect the response to a COVID-19 infection," said Candida Rebello, PhD, RD, lead author of a new paper that traces the link be more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 23 -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news release: Louisiana sugarcane growers received an exemption to use an insecticide to combat severe aphid infestations. The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry submitted the crisis exemption, and the Environmental Protection Agency approved the temporary use of Sivanto (flupyradifurone) in Louisiana sugarcane. Sugarcane farmers can use it from July 22 to Aug. 5, 2020. "Infestation more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 22 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on July 20: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Stephenson Technologies Corp., LSU's applied research entity, has won a $25 million federal contract for groundbreaking work to protect Louisiana's energy infrastructure. Specifically, the award from the U.S. Department of Defense's Naval Research Laboratory will create a digital dome protecting Port Fourchon and the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, the nation' more PR

MONROE, Louisiana, July 18 -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news release: It can be hard to find a Southerner who doesn't like a mouth-watering, sweet, juicy watermelon. Some recently rediscovered LSU varieties could make the experience even sweeter. During the past year, LSU AgCenter horticulture agent Kerry Heafner has been in search of vegetable varieties developed at the now-closed Calhoun Research Station in Ouachita Parish, also called the LSU North Louisi more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 23 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Under the Company's proposal pending at the Public Utility Commission of Texas, Entergy Texas customers will see a 4.1 percent reduction in the fuel portion of their bills for three months, which could begin as early as August. For the average residential customer using 1,000 kWh a month, the fuel charge will be reduced from about $23.34 per megawatt-hour to $18.67 per megawatt-hour, a savings of $4.67 a month. "We  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 21 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Tulane University researchers are teaming up with the U.S. Army Research Office on a machine learning project that could pave the way for small, mobile quantum networks and possibly lead to unbreakable, secure communication systems, quantum computers and enhanced radar. As part of the research, scientists combined machine learning with quantum information science, or QIS, using photon measurements to recons more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 23 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine will partner with local healthcare providers to launch a COVID-19 study of patients and medical workers in New Orleans as part of a larger Centers for Disease Control effort to answer key epidemiological and clinical questions about the disease. "We are so pleased that New Orleans will be one of metropolitan areas participating in this importan more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 23 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: The A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University will launch its first online graduate degree program in January 2021. The Master of Management in Entrepreneurial Hospitality teaches students how to craft extraordinary customer experiences through the joint lenses of hospitality and entrepreneurship, fulfilling a need for companies in all industries to face challenges in the current business landsca more PR

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, July 21 -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story on July 20: Dr. Linda Nichols is the new dean of the B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Nichols comes to UL Lafayette from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. There, she served as dean of the Collins College of Business. She joined the Tulsa faculty in 2011 as associate dean, director of Graduate Business Programs and a pro more PR