1:30 LRN Newscast

Two teenagers are dead and another teen is facing charges in a single vehicle wreck in Concordia Parish. State Police say impairment is suspected…

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That’s Master Trooper Casey Wallace who says the driver of the vehicle, 18-year-old Gregory Steele of Vidalia, has been charged with two-counts of vehicular homicide and underage driving while intoxicated. Seventeen-year-old Michelle Baity of Natchez, Mississippi and 19-year-old Jacob Bonette of Vidalia died from their injuries in the crash. Investigators say no one in the vehicle was buckled up.

Despite gas prices over four-dollars a gallon, Triple-A is not predicting a drop off in people traveling during the upcoming Memorial Day holiday…

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That’s Don Redman who says AAA is predicting a record 39-million-point-one million people will travel by car this Memorial Day weekend, a slight jump over last year.

 

Some surprising early voting numbers were released by the Secretary of State’s office. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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Unless LSU baseball does something miraculous in next week’s SEC Tournament, like winning it, the Tigers will miss the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2011. LSU suffered its 18th SEC loss yesterday, a 12-to-1 defeat to 5th ranked Georgia. The 18 losses tie a program high that dates back to 1978.