17:30 LRN Newscast

Advocates are asking a judge to order for the removal of incarcerated youth housed at Angola. They are concerned with the lack of air conditioning and teens are sometimes in solitary confinement. Southern Poverty Law Center senior policy analyst Delvin Davis is urging the state to reform Louisiana’s juvenile justice system…
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The Office of Juvenile Justice says they do not comment on legal action.

The search for a missing New Jersey man in Rapides Parish is over as the body of 58-year-old Robert Owens was found in a densely wooded area this morning. Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Tommy Carnline says Owens was a geocacher…
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Owens was known to be an active geocacher.

Lottery retailers were busy today spitting out Powerball tickets for tonight’s one billion dollar jackpot drawing. Louisiana Lottery spokesperson Dustin Annison says the odds of winning the jackpot are 1-in-292 million…
cut 5 (08) “….luck everyone”

LSU catcher Alex Milazzo announced on Tiger Rag Radio last night that he will return to the LSU baseball team for his fifth season. Milazzo says it’s an honor to wear the purple and gold and is not ready to give it up…
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Milazzo started five games behind the plate during the College World Series. Veteran catcher Hayden Travinski from Shreveport also says he’s coming back next year.