11:30 LRN Newscast

A St. Landry Parish woman has been cited for selling native turtles online, a direct violation of a new Louisiana law.  LDWF says 32-year-old Sydney Broussard of Eunice was selling red eared slider turtles for eight dollars apiece and an alligator snapping turtle for 30 dollars. Captain Scott Dupre says agents seized the turtles and returned them to the water. Dupre says it’s not illegal to possess the turtles but there are limits…

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Broussard faces a 350-dollar fine for each turtle she was selling.

New research has found that the shark population along the Gulf Coast is at its highest level it’s been since the 1970s.  Doctor Dean Grubbs with Florida State’s Coastal and Marine Laboratory credits conservation policies…

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Amir “Aura” Khan is headed to LSU. The viral McNeese basketball student manager officially joined Will Wade’s staff. Kace Kieschnick has more.

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LSU’s biggest athletic donors have been invited to the Governor’s Mansion next month for a private presentation on what Tiger Athletic Foundation President Matt Borman calls an alternative revenue opportunity that “could change the future of college sports.” There will be two informational sessions, one on August 3and the other on August 5.