1:30 PM Newscast August 14

A Tickfaw man will serve 70 years in prison after being convicted as a habitual offender. According to DA Scott M Perrilloux, 32 year old Devonte Skinner was been convicted of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl – a potentially deadly drug that has accounted for numerous deaths of Louisiana residents. According to the Livingston Parish Sheriffs office, Skinner was connected to one of the largest fentanyl seizure’s in the Parish’s history.

Louisiana Economic Development is providing a $200 thousand grant to the LSU film program, which will allow them to hire an additional faculty member in film and digital media production. Executive Associate Dean of the LSU College of Music and Dramatic Arts Kristen Sosnowsk says another professor will allow them to expand enrollment of the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television program…

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President Joe and First Lady Jill Biden awarded Tulane University 23 million dollars in funding to further cancer research. Mel Bridges has the story.

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Morgan City’s Vernon Norwood is the owner of four Olympic medals after winning two more medals at the Paris Games for Team U-S-A. He took home gold as part of the men’s 4×400-meter relay team and claimed a silver medal in the mixed four-by-400 relay. Retired Morgan City Principal Tim Hymel

Cut 13 (12)  “…just kept developing.”