3:30 LRN Newscast

The field is set for the Louisiana Senate Republican primary. Andrew Greenstein reports.

Cut 30 (31) “…I’m Andrew Greenstein.”

It was reported that all the riders on Float 32 in the Krewe of Thoth in New Orleans were removed after throwing beads in an aggressive manner at federal agents. But this afternoon the New Orleans Police Department corrected that report, saying the riders were removed for throwing items in an aggressive manner at a paradegoer holding an anti-ICE sign.

The Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office has implemented a system that would alert other drivers of a police chase. For drivers to receive the alert, they would need to download an app called “Digital Siren.”  The system was developed by Tim Morgan, the CEO of Pursuit Alert and Digital Siren. He says he hopes his technology will be so widespread that it will eventually no longer be necessary to download an app to receive the alerts.

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Iberville Parish authorities pushed for this technology after two teenagers that attended Brusly High School were killed by an Addis Police Officer who sped through an intersection during a chase.

Thanks to G-P-S technology, a 12-foot, one-thousand pound great white shark was recently found to be off of Louisiana’s coast, near the Chandeleur Islands east of New Orleans. The shark’s name is Ernst’s and it was originally tagged near Nova Scotia. Doctor Scott Powers with the University of South Alabama, says Ernst will not be in the Gulf of Mexico permanently…

Cut 11 (11) “…colder waters”