2:30 LRN Newscast

Dense fog this morning resulted in multiple crashes involving over 40 vehicles on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge that connects the New Orleans Metropolitan Area and the North Shore. Causeway General Manager Carlton Dufrechau…

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Officials say 33 people were hospitalized, but most of the injuries are minor and none are life-threatening.

Two-dozen people are facing either federal or state charges as a result of a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking involving methamphetamine in Rapides and Concordia parishes. U-S Attorney Brandon Brown says multiple people from Vidalia and Ferriday have been taken into custody…

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13 people are facing federal charges and Concordia Sheriff David Hedrick says his deputies arrested another 11 individuals.

The absenteeism trend in Louisiana schools is heading in the wrong direction. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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Office of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Dan Casey says yesterday’s system outage that prevented O-M-V from conducting any transactions is the result of a computer software system that’s 50-years-old. Casey says in the coming days, OMV will announce a modern solution to replace the aging system.