1:30 PM LRN Newscast

A six-year-old Slidell boy is dead after he has hit by an SUV while riding his scooter. St. Tammany Parish Sheriff deputies say the driver of the SUV kept going and has been charged with vehicular homicide, reckless operation and felony hit and run. Lt. Suzanne Carboni says the child was hit on Northshore Lane near Slidell..

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Carboni says the vehicle was located later that night on East Gause Boulevard and the driver, 35-year-old Cody Beaudette was taken into custody.

The state department of transportation is starting a new program called “Sponsor A Highway” that allows businesses to get involved in cleaning up the litter. DOTD spokesperson Rodney Mallett says local businesses can sponsor one-mile segments of a highway and help pay for litter removal…

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Entergy says they’ve come up with a way to save on your utility bills. Don Molino has the story…

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18-hundred military homes at Fort Polk are now powered by thirty-thousand solar panels provided by Corvias. Bartost Wojszyk (Voice-chick), President of Energy at Corvias says they invested 29-million-dollars and it took them two years to plan and complete construction

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Military bases historically have relied on the civilian power grid, making them vulnerable to natural disasters, cyberattacks, and physical attacks.