5:30 LRN Newscast November 15

In a press conference earlier today, Governor-elect Jeff Landry announced his first cabinet appointment. Aurelia Skipwith Giacometto will head the Department of Environmental Quality.  Giacometto has a biology degree from Howard, a master’s in molecular genetics from Purdue, and a law degree from the University of Kentucky. Landry says her appointment will attract others to the state.

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One of four females injured in Monday’s random knife stabbing on Louisiana Tech’s campus has passed away. Annie Richardson was attacked after leaving a senior exercise class on campus. Bulldogs Coach Sonny Cumbie….

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Twenty-three-year-old Jacoby Johnson of Rayville now faces a second-degree murder charge and three counts of attempted second-degree murder.

Two years ago today, President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law. Co-author of the bill, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy says the state has received over eight billion dollars from the infrastructure law in the first two years alone…

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Cassidy says one-point-four billion dollars has been invested in broadband, benefiting more than 447-thousand households…

Southern University has removed Eric Dooley as Head Football Coach less than two weeks ahead of the 50th annual Bayou Classic.  Athletics Director Roman Banks…

Cut 12 (12) “…Bayou Classic.”  

Dooley was fired after only two seasons.