6::30 LRN Newscast February 4

The light winter precipitation that fell last night has moved out of the state, but cold temperatures are here. High temperatures in north Louisiana will be in the upper 30s, and low 40s for central and north Louisiana.

Supporters of the family of Ronald Greene, the Black motorist who died after a beating by white State Police troopers in 2019, held a press conference to respond to statements made by Governor John Bel Edwards. David Grubb has more…
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Votes are expected to take place today in the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on proposed new Congressional district maps. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat…
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Black lawmakers say two of the state’s six congressional districts should be majority-minority districts, but Republican Senator Sharon Hewitt says if you do that the black vote will be diluted in those two districts, which risks the chance of not having a minority elected in either district.

There’s discussion of building wind farms in the Gulf of Mexico as another source of energy and Michael Hecht, CEO of Greater New Orleans Inc says there are already Louisiana firms involved in the engineering, construction, deploying, and servicing farms in the Atlantic Ocean…
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