12:30 LRN Newscast

Senator Bill Cassidy ended up being the deciding vote to advance Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for Secretary of Health to the full Senate.

Cut 1 (38) “…I’m Andrew Greenstein.”

Former Amite High star Devonta Smith will play in his second Super Bowl on Sunday when Smith’s Eagles take on the two-time defending champion Chiefs. Amite head football coach Zephaniah Powell says he’s extremely proud of Smith…

Cut 14 (05) “….for him”

LSU scored a victory today in its effort to keep embattled law professor Ken Levy out of the classroom. The First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that LSU should not be forced into putting Levy in the classroom despite a lower court’s ruling. The appeals court says LSU can wait until a full hearing. Levy was removed from the classroom after he used inappropriate language while criticizing Governor Landry for publicly rebuking a fellow law professor.

The Southern Shrimp Alliance says testing was done on 24 restaurants in New Orleans that advertised they were serving shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico and only three of them were serving imported shrimp. S-S-A board member Cheri Blanchard praised Louisiana’s progress but urged stronger enforcement to protect the domestic shrimp industry.

Cut 8 (06) “…with their health.”

The Louisiana Legislature passed legislation this year that impose significant penalties for restaurants that fail to inform customers when they are eating foreign imports vs. local wild-caught Gulf Shrimp.