2:30 LRN Newscast

LSU announces enhanced security measures for football home games.

Cut 1 (35) “…I’m Andrew Greenstein.”

The Fighting Tigers are at Vanderbilt this Saturday and two starters on defense could miss the game. Coach Brian Kelly gave an updated injury report today…

Cut 13 (08) “…doubtful”

Linebacker Whit Weeks and defensive tackle Bernard Gooden are starters on LSU’s defense. Weeks’s ankle that had offseason surgery on it is bothering him and Gooden has an injured collarbone.

 

About four in five children are missing out on afterschool programs because of cost or they are not available in their area. That’s according to a survey conducted by the Afterschool Alliance. Executive Director Jodi Grant says 44-percent of the parents they surveyed in Louisiana say afterschool programs are unavailable in their community…

Cut 7 (08) “…long waiting list”

Grant says they released this survey to inform federal and state policy makers that the need is great for afterschool programs.

The federal EPA has handed management of Smitty’s Supply site in Roseland back to the company. EPA Region Six Administrator Scott Mason says Smitty’s Supply will continue cleanup efforts…

Cut 10 (11) “….prevent further release”

Smitty’s needed the EPA to take over the cleanup at first, because it was so massive. EPA says they removed more than seven million gallons of liquid waste and laid over 22-thousand feet of containment boom.