11:30 LRN Newscast

It’s finally going to start feeling like fall this week. A cold front is coming through the lower Mississippi Valley today; and State Climatologist Jay Grymes says that will bring a huge change in temperatures.

Cut 3 (12) “…time of year.”

Grymes says the back end of the cold front will bring daytime highs in the 60s and will send overnight lows plunging into the 40s.

Governor Landry reportedly had outsized influence in Scott Woodward’s decision to fire Brian Kelly as LSU’s head football coach. Jeremy Alford, the publisher of LaPolitics-dot-com, says such involvement by Landry is not unprecedented.

Cut 24 (14) “…of his personality.”

LSU is expected to be aggressive in getting the best football coach it can find. So who’s the betting favorite to replace Brian Kelly? Jeff Palermo has the story.

Cut 2 (33) “…I’m Jeff Palermo.”

As one bridge gets set to reopen, another gets set to close. The bridge along L-A 507 over a waterway near the Village of Castor in Bienville Parish will reopen Friday after being closed for ten months. Then on Monday, a bridge along that same roadway near the intersection of L-A 514 in Red River Parish will close for nine months for replacement.