4:30 PM LRN Newscast

A teenage boy is arrested in connection with the killing of an elderly woman inside her Morehouse Parish apartment. On Tuesday evening, 73-year-old Ruby Lee Peterson was found stabbed to death inside her Bastrop apartment. Chief Deputy James Mardis with the Morehouse Parish Sheriff’s Office says the following day, deputies arrested 17-year-old Amir Dowles.

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If you don’t have a Real ID or other acceptable form of travel identification, you can fly but beginning Sunday, it will cost you time and money. If you do not have a valid ID to get through an airport security checkpoint, travelers can visit TSA’s website to fill out a mandatory identity verification form. TSA spokesperson Gervais Joubert says the processing fee is 45-dollars…

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The verification is valid for 10 days starting from the date of the initial flight.

The clock is ticking towards another partial government shutdown. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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After almost a week, I-49 reopened in Shreveport this afternoon.  But there are still people in north Louisiana without power and some in northeast Louisiana may be in the dark till Saturday.  Nyka (NIGH-kah) Scott, with Entergy, says the job has been more challenging than anticipated.

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