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While the country’s major television networks broadcast images Thursday night of Americans violently breaching the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 last year, Louisiana’s Republican members of Congress said their Democratic colleagues ought to instead be giving prime-time coverage to a litany of other problems facing the nation.

(TNS) - Parts of Southern University's campus in Baton Rouge are slowly eroding into the Mississippi River, but state and federal leaders said Wednesday they have a plan to stop it.

The collapsing land has been an issue for years, but the university has recently raised as the ridge moves closer to some buildings. The student health center, for example, is not far away from a steep embankment.

Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday called a special session for the Republican-controlled Legislature to draw new congressional boundaries after a federal judge struck down the map that won approval earlier this year.

The gathering would start at noon on June 15 and have to end by 6 p.m. on June 20th, according to the governor's proclamation.

Edwards' call came less than 24 hours after the Legislature ended its nearly three-month regular session Monday.