12:30 LRN Newscast

Legendary Saints Quarterback Drew Brees is headed to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It was officially announced last night.  Brees led the Saints to the franchise’s lone Super Bowl title in the 2009 season. He also set numerous records and his success on the field helped New Orleans recover from Hurricane Katrina…

Cut 14 (14) “…bigger than them”

Louisiana Tech football coach Sonny Cumbie has a new three contract. Cumbie’s annual salary has been reduced. The money not going to Cumbie will be used to help pay players through revenue sharing deals. Athletics director Ryan Ivey says Cumbie’s contract also allows him to earn more money by hitting certain incentives…

Cut 15 (08) certainly do that”

 

The reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person that fatally shot a bald eagle in Vermilion Parish on December 5th has increased to 15-thousand dollars…..

Cut 7 (11) “….receiving”

That’s Sergeant Michael Hebert with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

Construction is getting underway on the fifth campus in the River Parish Community College system – this one in Donaldsonville, in Ascension Parish. Chancellor Quintin Taylor says for the first three to four years after it opens in 2028, the campus will be used specifically to train workers for the new Hyundai Steel mill, until it fills all 13-hundred jobs.

Cut 3 (08) “…in the area.”