1130 AM LRN News

It’s another day of severe thunderstorms, hail, and flash flooding for the Bayou State. State Climatologist Barry Keim says a slow-moving cold front is responsible for the April showers and they’ll stay with us for the remainder of the week.

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An arrest has been made in the 2004 cold case murder of a 19-year-old in Alexandria. 45-year-old David Burns of Boyce has been charged with the second-degree murder of Courtney Coco who was last seen at her home two days before her body was discovered in an abandoned building in southwest Texas. Alexandria Police Sergeant Josh Peppers hopes the arrest is a relief for those who knew Coco

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Burns’s bond has been set at 500-thousand dollars.

The state halts the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine until the CDC and FDA review data concerning six women who developed blood clots within days of the vaccine. Brooke Thorington explains.

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The Coast Guard is accepting offers from southeast Louisiana marine and air operators who are willing to help in the search for the 12 missing crewmembers of a Seacor lift boat that capsized seven miles off the coast of Port Fourchon yesterday afternoon.