LSU is mourning the loss of Oscar Gabriel Richard III, former LSU director of public relations and member of LSU’s Ole War Skule Hall of Honor and the Manship School’s Hall of Fame.

Richard died Tuesday, May 7, at the age of 91.  

Visitation will be held at Rabenhorst Funeral Home, 825 Government Street in Baton Rouge, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, May 10, and from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, at St. Aloysius Catholic Church with a funeral mass following at 1 p.m.

In his honor, LSU Interim System President and Chancellor William Jenkins will have the American flag on the Parade Ground flown at half-staff until Saturday at sundown.

The day after his graduation from LSU’s School of Journalism (now the Manship School of Mass Communication) in June 1942, Richard enrolled as an aviation cadet in the U.S. Army Air Corps, was selected as a bombardier and eventually assigned to the 384th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, stationed at Grafton Underwood, England.

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB)- Former Governor Edwin Edwards is taking issue with the current Governor's opposition to cut tax credits. A House of Representatives proposal would cut those credits by 15% across the board. Jindal says that's horrible for business and would force some to move elsewhere.

Edwards says the tax credits need to be looked at in an effort to get the budget in line. "My point is the legislature is very wise in looking at the exemption which costs the state billions every year," says

Edwards. "Trying to negotiate trimming some that are out dated and reducing some by 15 % is their proposal wouldn't hurt anybody."

Governor Jindal said on Tuesday that the house proposal would raise taxes on businesses the same as what was done in the 80's.

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Celeste Runnels, a sophomore at Baton Rouge Magnet High School, earned a perfect SAT score of 2400, according to Principal Nanette McCann.

She also earned a perfect score on the PSAT in October. 

She is among 360 SAT takers nationwide to achieve that goal and the only one from Louisiana.

Runnels has a GPA of 4.56, earned the Maureen O'Donnell Oxford Classical Dictionary Award and a Gold Medal on the National Latin Exam this year. She also won first place overall at state literary rally for Physics. 

In addition, Runnels earned a five on both the Advanced Placement (AP) exams for Human Geography and U.S. Government exams and is taking 4 AP exams this year -- Calculus AB, Psychology, Physics B and Latin.

Runnels is a member of Mu Alpha Theta, Junior Classical League and Jewish Club. She sings, acts and plays the cello. She also takes Latin and French lessons outside school and plans to spend this summer at a French Immersion program in Nova Scotia. 

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