5:30 LRN Newscast

Flu season is off to a slower-than-usual start. Ochsner Family Medicine Physician Dr. Whitney Hardy says it’s still very important for people to get vaccinated, particularly people like the elderly, young children, and those with weakened immune systems.

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Ochsner Clinics in New Orleans will be holding drive-thru and walk-up fairs this Saturday.

Detectives with St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Major Crime Unit are investigating a deadly shooting outside a Slidell-area business.  67-year-old Dennis Knecht and 64-year-old Cynthia Knecht were killed. Lieutenant Suzanne Carboni says there is no danger to the public…

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This is an ongoing investigation.

The state is ordering a Lafayette-based roofing company to stop acting as public adjusters. Sean Richardson reports.

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When the LSU Board of Supervisors voted last week to change its bylaws to allow its chairman to make appointments to any search committee in the system, it may have violated the state’s open meetings law. The Louisiana Illuminator reports the notice for the meeting only stated that the group would discuss “bylaw review,” and an attorney says the vague nature of that wording may violate the open meetings law.