I had suffered a detached retina. Three days later, I was being wheeled through the bowels of the hospital and into an operating room. “Wait a minute! Y’all know I’m not a heart patient, don’t you?” It doesn’t matter. Retinal detachment surgery is a big deal.

The 20th annual LSUS Alumni Capital One Pilots Golf Classic will be the centerpiece of a day full of fun. Activities will run from 9 a.m.-6 p.m., highlighted by the Classic’s noon shotgun start. The action will take place at The Golf Club at StoneBridge in Bossier City.

“Going from a one-seater to a two-seater allows you to share the experience and gives you more redundancy,” Hamel said. “If you ever had a failure, if something ever happened to your aircraft engine, you could drive back. If something happened to your drive system, you just fly back.

WK recently completed a major expansion of its Heart & Vascular Institute. Adjacent to the hospital’s North Campus on Greenwood Road, the Institute has expanded by 80,000 square feet and three floors. The space is now home to five new surgical suites, 20 additional critical care beds, and state-of-the art equipment.

Want to see the players up close and personal, competing in a game other than football? Check. Wish there was a Mardi Grasthemed parade without having to wait for Mardi Gras season? Check. Feel like singing and swaying to the music at an outdoor concert? Check.

The early response 'has been absolutely incredible,' said Jake Wood, the aquarium's director of marketing and public relations. 'We opened on a Wednesday in the middle of the day, and we were packed. We moved into the weekend, and we had lines that were wrapped around the building.'

They met at the crossroads. “It looked like it was falling on my shoulders for a reason,” Bubba said. “It was like a divine intervention. She needed help. She couldn’t run it. The merchandise was scattered about. There was very little money left. She asked me to come in with the little expertise I had in the car business.

“I just have to keep thinking that I have my priorities in line, and I’m doing what I love to do,” Baker said.